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Dressed In Fiction (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Dressed In Fiction (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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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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