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Dressed in fiction / Clair Hughes

Material Type Books
Publisher Oxford ; New York : Berg
Year 2006, c2005
Language English
Size ix, [1], 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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大学 Knowledge Forest 67
933/HU 000161618
9781845201722

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Contents 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
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index
HTTP:URL=http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005029984.html Information=Table of contents
Authors *Hughes, Clair, 1941-
Subjects LCSH:English fiction -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
LCSH:Clothing and dress in literature
LCSH:American fiction -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
Classification LCC:PR830.C59
DC22:823.009/3559
ID 1000161474
ISBN 184520171X
NCID BA75177377

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