Henry James and the Art of Dress 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Hughes, C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333914309 ISBN-13: 9780333914304 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 00055709 |
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.86" W x 8.82" (1.03 lbs) 216 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Henry James was fascinated by clothing and dress. This book examines, for the first time, the role of dress in reinforcing thematic and symbolic patterns in James's fictional world. Hughes traces a development from the significance of dress in discussion of 'the American Girl' in the early works, through dress as an indicator of social position, to the emergence of the more unstable and threatening aspects of dress, which culminate in the strange case of the coat of changing colours in The Sense of the Past. |