Samuel Richardson, dress, and discou...
Oliver, Kathleen M.

 

  • Samuel Richardson, dress, and discourse[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 823/.6
    書名/作者: Samuel Richardson, dress, and discourse/ Kathleen M. Oliver.
    作者: Oliver, Kathleen M.
    出版者: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; : PalgraveMacmillan,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: x, 229 p. : : ill.
    標題: Epistolary fiction, English - History and criticism.
    ISBN: 9780230584624
    ISBN: 0230584624
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-226) and index.
    內容註: Introduction -- PART I: THE BODY AND DRESS OF THOUGHT -- Dress and the Discourses of the Mind-- Dress in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature -- PART II: DRESSING FOR SUCCESS WITH PAMELA -- Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal -- b3 sSo Neat, So Clean, So Pretty! b4 s: Dressing Up Virtue -- Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B. -- PART III: WINDOWSHOPPING THE ESSENTIAL SELF WITH CLARISSA -- Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self -- b3 sOf Her Own Invention b4 s: Revealing the Self -- b3 sWhere . . . Art is Disguised b4 s: Concealingthe Self -- PART IV: REFASHIONING THE WORLD WITH SIR CHARLES GRANDISON -- b3 sA Conformist to Fashion b4 s: Dressing for Duty -- b3 sA Mighty Glitter b4 s: Seeing through the Veil -- b3 sDressinginColours b4 s: Changing the Guard -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: While dress is but one way of entering into a text, and a small point of entry at that, analysis of dress in Richardson's novels provides us with insights into the nature of novel writing in eighteenth-century England; into the nature of Richardson's novelistic project of constructing a legible domestic feminine body whose signification remains stable; and into the paradox that Richardson'sideal, sensible (as possessedof sensibility) female body is ultimately coded as male. It also callsinto question the whole construct of the b3 sdomestic woman b4 s and what this construct means in terms of bourgeois ideology: Is the ideal domestic woman merely a man in drag?
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