Dressed in fiction / Clair Hughes.
| Author/creator | Hughes, Clair, 1941- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006. |
| Description | ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005029984 |
| ISBN | 184520171X (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1845201728 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781845201715 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781845201722 (pbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PR830.C59 H84 2006 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |