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Dress, Distress And Desire - ENG

Clothing And The Female Body In Eighteenth-century Literature

J. Batchelor

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ISBN:	9780230508200
Formato:	Page Fidelity
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Crítica literaria
Subtema:	Semiótica y Teoría
Año de publicación:	2005-05-11

Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. Batchelors study brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and womens magazines to investigate the pressures that the growth of the fashion market placed on conceptions of female virtue and propriety. It shows how dress dispelled the sentimental myth that the body acted as a moral index and enabled the women reader to resist some of sentimental literatures more prescriptive advice.

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