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Women, work and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel / Chloe Wigston Smith, University of Georgia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Chloe Wigston, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women in literature.
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- Work in literature.
- Working class in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Women, Work, & Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress's transformative potential, it charts the novel's vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies, and paper was made of rags, the novel, by contrast, resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression, style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women's work with clothing - through stealing, sex work, service, stitching, and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors, including Jane Barker, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, John Cleland, Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The rhetoric and materials of clothes. The ornaments of prose
- Paper clothes
- The practical habits of fiction. Shift work
- Domestic work
- Public work
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-139-89158-8
- 1-316-60093-9
- 1-107-27201-7
- 1-139-54270-2
- 1-107-27859-7
- 1-107-27410-9
- 1-107-27534-2
- 1-107-27736-1
- OCLC:
- 853363947
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