This volume traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the 18th & 19th centuries, from Defoe's 'Roxana' to Edith Wharton's 'House of Mirth'. It covers a range of topics from the growth of the middle classes & association of luxury with...
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This volume traces the deployment of dress in key fictional texts of the 18th & 19th centuries, from Defoe's 'Roxana' to Edith Wharton's 'House of Mirth'. It covers a range of topics from the growth of the middle classes & association of luxury with vice, to reasons why wedding dresses rarely symbolise happiness Includes bibliographical references and index