{"product_id":"dress-distress-and-desire-j-batchelor-9781403948472","title":"Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Batchelor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 140394847X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781403948472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.84h x 6.02w x 0.70d","brand":"J. Batchelor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424337740031,"sku":"9781403948472","price":109.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_276ac100-0c89-4aa0-b28f-f5a7480bff5e.jpg?v=1761529644","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dress-distress-and-desire-j-batchelor-9781403948472","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}