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Dressed in fiction / Clair Hughes.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Clair, 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
- 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 House of mirth
- The missing wedding dresses : Samuel Richardson's Pamela to Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 184520171X
- 1845201728
- OCLC:
- 62152799
- Publisher Number:
- 9781845201715 (hbk.)
- 9781845201722 (pbk.)
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