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This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress s transformative potential it charts the novel s vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies and paper was made of rags the novel by contrast resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women s work with clothing - through stealing sex work service stitching and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors including Jane Barker Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Charlotte Lennox John Cleland Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.
Editions of Women, Work and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107035003
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781316600931
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This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress s transformative potential it charts the novel s vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies and paper was made of rags the novel by contrast resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women s work with clothing - through stealing sex work service stitching and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors including Jane Barker Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Charlotte Lennox John Cleland Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.
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This groundbreaking study examines the vexed and unstable relations between the eighteenth-century novel and the material world. Rather than exploring dress s transformative potential it charts the novel s vibrant engagement with ordinary clothes in its bid to establish new ways of articulating identity and market itself as a durable genre. In a world in which print culture and textile manufacturing traded technologies and paper was made of rags the novel by contrast resisted the rhetorical and aesthetic links between dress and expression style and sentiment. Chloe Wigston Smith shows how fiction exploited women s work with clothing - through stealing sex work service stitching and the stage - in order to revise and reshape material culture within its pages. Her book explores a diverse group of authors including Jane Barker Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe Eliza Haywood Samuel Richardson Henry Fielding Charlotte Lennox John Cleland Frances Burney and Mary Robinson.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Women, Work and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Women, Work and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel?
Chloe Wigston Smith
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Women, Work and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107035003) and paperback(ISBN 9781316600931)