Crossings in text and textile / / Katherine Joslin and Daneen Wardrop, editors ; designed by Vicki Kuskowski ; contributors, Babak Elah [and ten others]

• Pubblicazione: Durham, New Hampshire : , : University of New Hampshire Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.933564
• Soggetto topico: Clothing and dress in literature; Textile fabrics in literature
• Persona (resp. second.): JoslinKatherine <1947->; WardropDaneen <1952->; KuskowskiVicki; ElahBabak
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 | "Excesses of Every Kind": Dress and Drag around 1870 by Abigail Joseph; 2 | An Epitome of Times and Fashions: Temporality and Textiles in Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables by Babak Elahi; 3 | Austen's Muslin by Laura George; 4 | William Makepeace Thackeray's Fashionable Humbugs: Consuming National Distinctions of Dress in Vanity Fair by Amy L. Montz; 5 | "Such Hosts of Rags": Transatlantic Crossings between Paper and Cotton in Melville's "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" by Amber Shaw; Illustrations ; 6 | Dressing the Aesthetic Woman, from "Maison Lucile" to Midnight in Paris by Margaret D. Stetz7 | Clothing and Colonialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Pouneh Saeedi; 8 | The Midwife's Clothing: Jessie Fauset In and Out of Fashion by Kimberly Lamm; 9 | Modeling for Men: The Early Jean Rhys by Hope Howell Hodgkins; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A broad interdisciplinary collection highlighting the central place of clothing and textile in literature
• Titolo autorizzato: Crossings in text and textile
• ISBN: 1-61168-644-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788195603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Becoming Modern/Reading Dress