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

By:

Smith, Chloe Wigston [Author.]

Publication details: UK; Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: x, 260 pages : illustrations, bibloigraphyISBN:

9781107035003 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781316600931 (paperback : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

823.6099287 SMI-W

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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.

Summary: his groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. The book ranges from textured readings of print culture to detailed cultural histories of the circulation, production and consumption of clothes, while paying particular attention to the relationship between identity and dress.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-254) and index.

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.

his groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. The book ranges from textured readings of print culture to detailed cultural histories of the circulation, production and consumption of clothes, while paying particular attention to the relationship between identity and dress.

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