Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914

ISBN-13: 9781138265530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 182 str.

Rosy Aindow

Opis

Rosy Aindow's interdisciplinary study maps the literary response to the emergence of a modern fashion industry in late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. The study argues dress is given a distinctive voice in novels of the period; works that embrace older sartorial tropes, but which simultaneously shape and formulate their own reflecting contemporary social concerns.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; The function of dress in the novel; Development and innovation in the 19th-century fashion industry; Writing out frivolity; Fashion and the art of (class) deception; Needlewomen and shop girls in 19th-century fiction; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Rosy Aindow is Tutor in the School of English at The University of Nottingham, UK