| Description |
1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
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. |
| Summary |
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.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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Clothing and dress in literature. |
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Work in literature.
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Work in literature. |
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Working class in literature.
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Working class in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Chloe Wigston. Women, work and clothes in the eighteenth-century novel. Cambridge, : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107035003 (DLC) 2013004680 (OCoLC)830667919 |
| ISBN |
9781107274105 (electronic book) |
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1107274109 (electronic book) |
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9781461934097 (electronic book) |
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1461934095 (electronic book) |
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9781139542708 (electronic book) |
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1139542702 (electronic book) |
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9781107275348 |
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1107275342 |
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9781107035003 |
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1107035007 |
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