Dressed In Fiction - Couverture souple

Hughes, Clair

 
9781845201722: Dressed In Fiction
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1845201728 ISBN 13 : 9781845201722
Editeur : Berg Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

When we look closely at dress in a novel we begin to enrich our sense of the novel's historical and social context. More than this, wealth, class, beauty and moral rectitude can all be coded in fabric. In the modern novel, narratives are increasingly situated within the consciousness of characters, and it is the experience of dress that tells us about the context and the emotional, political and psychological values of the characters. Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, from Daniel Defoe's Roxana to George Eliot's Middlemarch and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth. Covering a range of topics, from the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, to the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness, the book presents a unique study of the history of clothing through the most popular and influential literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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À propos de l?auteur

Clair Hughes is an independent scholar.

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Éditeur
Berg Publishers
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845201728
ISBN 13 
9781845201722
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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