Women, work and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Chloe Wigston (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
1700-1799
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Work in literature.
Working class in literature.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Travail dans la littérature.
Travailleurs dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Clothing and dress in literature
English fiction
Women in literature
Work in literature
Working class in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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