Hughes, Clair, 1941-
Dressed in fiction [Book /] Clair Hughes. - New York : Berg, 2006. - 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 House of mirth -- The missing wedding dresses : Samuel Richardson's Pamela to Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac.
All Ages.
1845201728
2005029984
English fiction--History and criticism.
Clothing and dress in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
PR830.C59 / H84 2006
823.0093559
Dressed in fiction [Book /] Clair Hughes. - New York : Berg, 2006. - 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 House of mirth -- The missing wedding dresses : Samuel Richardson's Pamela to Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac.
All Ages.
1845201728
2005029984
English fiction--History and criticism.
Clothing and dress in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
PR830.C59 / H84 2006
823.0093559