Dressed in fiction / Clair Hughes.
"Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Covering a range of topics, from the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, to the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness, th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berg,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Dressed in Fiction traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Covering a range of topics, from the growth of the middle classes and the association of luxury with vice, to the reasons why wedding dresses rarely ever symbolize happiness, the book presents a unique study of the history of clothing through the most popular and influential literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 184520171X 9781845201715 1845201728 9781845201722 |