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This book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or challenges the characters'' fashioning of self and the self as others (characters or readers) perceive it.

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Introduction PART I: THE BODY AND DRESS OF THOUGHT Dress and the Discourses of the Mind Dress in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature PART II: DRESSING FOR SUCCESS WITH PAMELA Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal 'So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!': Dressing Up Virtue Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B. PART III: WINDOWSHOPPING THE ESSENTIAL SELF WITH CLARISSA Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self 'Of Her Own Invention': Revealing the Self 'Where . . . Art is Disguised': Concealing the Self PART IV: REFASHIONING THE WORLD WITH SIR CHARLES GRANDISON 'A Conformist to Fashion': Dressing for Duty 'A Mighty Glitter': Seeing through the Veil 'Dressing in Colours': Changing the Guard Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

Samuel Richardson Dress and Discourse

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      Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
      Published 1 January 2008
      ISBN-13 9781349365319
      978-1349365319
      ISBN-10 1349365319
      Also in:
      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book concerns itself with dress in the novels of Samuel Richardson, and how attire confirms, contributes to, or challenges the characters'' fashioning of self and the self as others (characters or readers) perceive it.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction PART I: THE BODY AND DRESS OF THOUGHT Dress and the Discourses of the Mind Dress in Eighteenth-Century Life and Literature PART II: DRESSING FOR SUCCESS WITH PAMELA Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal 'So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!': Dressing Up Virtue Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B. PART III: WINDOWSHOPPING THE ESSENTIAL SELF WITH CLARISSA Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self 'Of Her Own Invention': Revealing the Self 'Where . . . Art is Disguised': Concealing the Self PART IV: REFASHIONING THE WORLD WITH SIR CHARLES GRANDISON 'A Conformist to Fashion': Dressing for Duty 'A Mighty Glitter': Seeing through the Veil 'Dressing in Colours': Changing the Guard Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

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