Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Informationen zum Autor Chloe Wigston Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, where she specializes in eighteenth-century studies. She studied the History of Dress at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Klappentext This book charts the novel's vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages. Zusammenfassung This 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Rhetoric and Materials of Clothes: 1. The ornaments of prose; 2. Paper clothes; Part II. The Practical Habits of Fiction: 3. Shift work; 4. Domestic work; 5. Public work; Afterword: false parts; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Chloe Wigston Smith, Chloe Wigston (University of Georgia) Smith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2013
• EAN: 9781107035003
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03500-3
• No. of pages: 269
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies