Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse

✍ Scribed by Kathleen M. Oliver (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 234
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-25
Dress and the Discourses of the Mind....Pages 26-39
Dress in 18th-Century English Life and Literature....Pages 40-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-53
Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal....Pages 54-62
“So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!”: Dressing Up Virtue....Pages 63-80
Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B.....Pages 81-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-100
Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self....Pages 101-107
“Of Her Own Invention”: Revealing the Self....Pages 108-124
“Where … Art is Designed”: Concealing the Self....Pages 125-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-152
“A Conformist to Fashion”: Dressing for Duty....Pages 153-161
“A Mighty Glitter”: Seeing through the Veil....Pages 162-174
“Dressing in Colours”: Changing the Guard....Pages 175-194
Conclusion....Pages 195-197
Back Matter....Pages 198-229

✦ Subjects

Fiction; Early Modern/Renaissance Literature; British and Irish Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature