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Zusatztext 'Aindow has produced a fascinating! intelligently argued book! deploying literary and historical material with clarity and discrimination. It is an important contribution to a growing body of studies but also a reminder that we have not outgrown the problems she describes: the relationship between fashion and class is still being negotiated! albeit in different contexts.' Costume 'Moving skilfully between discussions on fashion and individual identity and fashion and shifting social hierarchies! Aindow eloquently demonstrates how the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel both contained and manipulated the alleged threat of sartorial democratisation within society.' English Historical Review '... presents a solid analysis of fashion's significance in late-Victorian and Edwardian literature! with a commendable methodological approach - rather than focusing on individual texts! her chapters are comparative - and an impressive archive of primary texts ranging from periodical essays to the novels of Arnold Bennett! Wilkie Collins! George Eliot! Elizabeth Gaskell! George Gissing! Thomas Hardy! George Moore! and Mary Ward.' Victorian Studies Informationen zum Autor Rosy Aindow is Tutor in the School of English at The University of Nottingham, UK Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
