Dress and identity in British literary culture, 1870-1914 / Rosy Aindow.
Publication details: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.Description: 172 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780754661450 (hbk.)
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Clothing and dress in literature
- Fashion in literature
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Social classes in literature
- Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Fashion -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Fashion -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- 823.809564 AIN 2010
Contents:
The function of dress in the novel -- Development and innovation in the nineteenth-century fashion industry -- Writing out frivolity -- Women, fashion and the art of (class) deception -- Needlewomen and shop girls in nineteenth-century fiction.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The function of dress in the novel -- Development and innovation in the nineteenth-century fashion industry -- Writing out frivolity -- Women, fashion and the art of (class) deception -- Needlewomen and shop girls in nineteenth-century fiction.