Dressed in fiction - Hughes, Clair, 1941- (New York : Berg, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
All Ages.
Keywords: English fiction -- History and criticism; Clothing and dress in literature; American fiction -- History and criticism