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
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