Dressed in fiction / Clair Hughes.

Author/creator Hughes, Clair, 1941-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
Descriptionix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 202-208) and index.
LCCN 2005029984
ISBN184520171X (hbk.)
ISBN1845201728 (pbk.)
ISBN9781845201715 (hbk.)
ISBN9781845201722 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR830.C59 H84 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold