Description
Trade ReviewWhile describing how writers have used items of clothing in neo-Victorian narratives,
this book also does much more. It helps us to appreciate gloves, gowns, veils, and jewels in fiction as active agents; it illuminates beautifully their lives as individual characters with their own memorable stories and emotional baggage.
* Margaret D. Stetz, Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies, University of Delaware, USA *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Re-Fashioning the Victorians Re-Fashioning the Past Reading and Writing Dress: Texts and Textiles (Neo-)Victorian Sartorial and Material Culture Neo-Victorian Fashions: Chapter Outlines
2. Gowns Neo-Victorianism and New Materialism Dynamic Dresses in
The Master Sartorial Entanglements in
Alias Grace 3. Gloves Fashioning Identity, Agency, and Desire in Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy ‘The impress of her hand’: Victorian Gloves Neo-Victorian Gloves: Touch, Materiality, and Queer Desire Material Traces of the Past
4. Veils Victorian Veils Neo-Victorian Veils Veils and Canvases in
The Ghost Writer: Revealing the Past Veils, Bindings, Skin: Concealing Bodies and Books in
The Journal of Dora Damage 5. Jewellery Ornamenting the Victorian Woman Heirlooms and Afterlives: Jewellery in
Great Expectations and
Havisham ‘Talisman’ Turquoises and ‘Poisoned’ Diamonds in
Daniel Deronda and
Gwendolen 6. Conclusion Bibliography Index
