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

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2005
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Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. 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.

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Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. 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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 11 May 2005
ISBN 10: 140394847X
ISBN 13: 9781403948472

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

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$136.24

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$136.24

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