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Author:

Smith, Chloe Wigston.

Title:

Women, work and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel / Chloe Wigston Smith, University of Georgia.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 260 pages : ill. ; 26 cm

Subject:

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Work in literature.
Working class in literature.

Notes:

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

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.

ISBN:

1107035007 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107035003 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)830667919

LCCN:

2013004680

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)