Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914

Download or read book Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914 written by Rosy Aindow and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosy Aindow's interdisciplinary study maps the literary response to the emergence of a modern fashion industry in late nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain. The study argues dress is given a distinctive voice in novels of the period; works that embrace older sartorial tropes, but which simultaneously shape and formulate their own reflecting contemporary social concerns.