Crossings in text and textile

Weitere Verfasser: Joslin, Katherine 1947- , [HerausgeberIn]
Wardrop, Daneen, 1952- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, [2015].
Umfang/Format: xix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Becoming modern New Ninteenth-century studies
Reading dress series
ISBN: 9781611686425
1611686423
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebookbatch.PMUSE_batch:muse3752820151126
Inhaltsangabe:
  • "Excesses of every kind": dress and drag around 1870 / Abigail Joseph
  • 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.