Serena Dyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5725134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serena Dyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serena |
| FAMILY NAME | Dyer |
| SIGNATURE | DYER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1047-2859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Women making fashion
The trope of the frivolous fashionista is familiar today throughout literature and culture.1 She is giddy and flippant, prioritising appearances and designer names over more serious, masculine purs...
Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970
I Have Been a Collector of Costumes’
By the early nineteenth century, the ‘costume book’ genre was well established as a catalogue of national habits. These chronologically, socially and geographically devised sartorial indexes to the world strove to use dress as a means of categorising and delineating humankind. Such publications espouse a sense of neat chronological evolution, situated within a framework of masculine progress. While the majority of published costume books from the…
State of the Field
This article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discipline of history. The study of material culture – the myriad layers of cultural meaning embedded within objects – has been adopted by historians from colleagues in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies, and continues to thrive as an interdisciplinary field in tandem with art history and literary studies. As inventive digital and embodied methodologies within ma…
From Silks to Spices
Consumption is often cited as a meta-narrative for historical change. The eighteenth century has contentiously been presented as the stage for a “consumer revolution” in Britain, a process of transformation variously linked to British imperialism, industrial development, social mobility, global trade, and urban development. Related concepts such as politeness, luxury, and taste have been central to this work, and have been presented as the ideas …
Shopping and the Senses
Interest in the senses has blossomed over the last decade, leading to numerous explorations of touch, smell, sound, taste and sight throughout history. Increasingly, historians are considering how this sensory methodology can enrich other fields of historical study. This article explores the potential for sensory history to open new avenues of thought in the field of urban consumption history. Focusing on the period of the so called ‘consumer rev…
State of the Field
This article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discipline of history. The study of material culture – the myriad layers of cultural meaning embedded within objects – has been adopted by historians from colleagues in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies, and continues to thrive as an interdisciplinary field in tandem with art history and literary studies. As inventive digital and embodied methodologies within ma…
Shopping and the Senses
Interest in the senses has blossomed over the last decade, leading to numerous explorations of touch, smell, sound, taste and sight throughout history. Increasingly, historians are considering how this sensory methodology can enrich other fields of historical study. This article explores the potential for sensory history to open new avenues of thought in the field of urban consumption history. Focusing on the period of the so called ‘consumer rev…
From Silks to Spices
Consumption is often cited as a meta-narrative for historical change. The eighteenth century has contentiously been presented as the stage for a “consumer revolution” in Britain, a process of transformation variously linked to British imperialism, industrial development, social mobility, global trade, and urban development. Related concepts such as politeness, luxury, and taste have been central to this work, and have been presented as the ideas …
I Have Been a Collector of Costumes’
By the early nineteenth century, the ‘costume book’ genre was well established as a catalogue of national habits. These chronologically, socially and geographically devised sartorial indexes to the world strove to use dress as a means of categorising and delineating humankind. Such publications espouse a sense of neat chronological evolution, situated within a framework of masculine progress. While the majority of published costume books from the…
State of the Field
This article surveys the state of the field of material culture within the discipline of history. The study of material culture – the myriad layers of cultural meaning embedded within objects – has been adopted by historians from colleagues in anthropology, archaeology and museum studies, and continues to thrive as an interdisciplinary field in tandem with art history and literary studies. As inventive digital and embodied methodologies within ma…
Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970
Women making fashion
The trope of the frivolous fashionista is familiar today throughout literature and culture.1 She is giddy and flippant, prioritising appearances and designer names over more serious, masculine purs...
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Decadence, Literature, and Society (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)