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Title:

Crossings in text and textile / Katherine Joslin and Daneen Wardrop, editors.

Publisher:

University of New Hampshire Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xix, 287 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Clothing and dress in literature.
Textile fabrics in literature.

Other Authors:

Joslin, Katherine, 1947- editor.
Wardrop, Daneen, 1952- editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.

Contents:

Modeling for men: the early Jean Rhys / Hope Howell Hodgkins. An epitome of times and fashions: temporality and textiles in Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables / Babak Elahi -- Austen muslin / Laura George -- William Makepeace Thackeray's fashionable humbugs: consuming national distinctions of dress in Vanity Fair / Amy L. Montz -- "Such hosts of rags": transatlantic corssings between paper and cotton in Melville's "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" / Amber Shaw -- Dressing the aesthetic woman, from "Maison Lucile" to Midnight in Paris / Margaret D. Stetz -- Clothing and Colonialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness / Pouneh Saeedi -- The midwife's clothing: Jessie Fauset in and out of fashion / Kimberly Lamm -- Modeling for men: the early Jean Rhys / Hope Howell Hodgkins.

Series:

Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies
Reading dress series

ISBN:

1611686423
9781611686425

OCLC:

(OCoLC)885092578

LCCN:

2014018113

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)