Henry James and the art of dress / Clair Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Clair, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

James, Henry, 1843-1916--Knowledge and learning--Clothing and dress.

James, Henry.

James, Henry, 1843-1916.

Clothing and dress.

Clothing and dress in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

Henry James was fascinated by clothing and dress. This book examines, for the first time, the role of dress in reinforcing the thematic and symbolic patterns of James's fictional world. Clair Hughes traces a development from the significance of dress in discussion of "the American Girl" in the early works, through dress as an indicator of social position, to the emergence of the more unstable and threatening aspects of dress, which culminate in the strange case of the coat of changing colors in "The Sense of the Past.

Contents:

1 Costume and James 1

2 Daisy Miller and 'The Pension Beaurepas' 14

3 The Ironic Dresses of Washington Square 29

4 The 'Colour of Life' in The Portrait of a Lady 45

5 Milly Theale in The Wings of the Dove 67

6 Hats and The Princess Casamassima 90

7 'Muffled' and 'Uncovered' in The Ambassadors 115

8 Depravities of Decoration in The Golden Bowl 143

9 New Fashioned Ghosts 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-207) and index.

ISBN:

0333914309

OCLC:

44727665