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Women, work and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel /
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 articu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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.-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107274105 1107274109 9781461934097 1461934095 9781139542708 1139542702 9781107275348 1107275342 9781316600931 1316600939 1139891588 9781139891585 1107272017 9781107272019 1107278597 9781107278592 1107277361 9781107277366 |