Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Batchelor, J.

Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403948472)

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Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Batchelor, J.

Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature

$109.99
Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Batchelor, J.

Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. Batchelor's study brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's 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 literature's more prescriptive advice.

Author: J. Batchelor
ISBN-10: 140394847X
ISBN-13: 9781403948472
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2005
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.02w x 0.70d
By J. Batchelor
By J. Batchelor
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JENNIE BATCHELOR is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent. She has published on women and gender in the eighteenth century. She is an Associate Editor of the e-journal CW3, the journal of the Corvey Women's Writers Project, and is a General Editor of a new Palgrave series A History of British Women's Writing. With Cora Kaplan, she has co-edited a collection of essays on authorship, history and politics in eighteenth-century women's writing to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2005

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