Dressed in fiction

Author(s)

• Hughes, Clair

Bibliographic Information

Dressed in fiction

Clair Hughes

Berg, 2006, c2005

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index

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Contents of Works

• Dressing for the reader
• The fatal dress : Daniel Defoe's Roxana
• Talk about muslin : Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
• Unrepentant dandies : William Thackeray's Pendennis
• The woman in white and the woman in colour : Wilkie Collins's Woman in white and Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's secret
• "Mind and millinery" : George Eliot's Middlemarch
• Shades of white : Henry James's "Siege of London" and "The author of Beltraffio"
• Consuming clothes : Edith Wharton's the house of mirth
• The missing wedding dresses : Samuel Richardson's Pamela to Anita Brookner's Hôtel du Lac

Details

• NCID: BA75177377
• ISBN:
  • 184520171X
  • 1845201728
• LCCN: 2005029984
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: ix, [1], 214 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR830.C59
  • DC22 : 823.009/3559
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English fiction -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Clothing and dress in literature
  • LCSH : American fiction -- History and criticism