Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Name: Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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By Dove, Danielle Mariann

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"Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction is the first full-length study to investigate and attend to the deeply suggestive and highly symbolic iterations of Victorian women's dress in the contemporary cultural imagination. Drawing upon a range of popular and less well-studied neo-Victorian novels published between 1990 and 2014, as well as their Victorian counterparts, 19th-century illustrative material, and extant Victorian garments, Danielle Dove explores the creative possibilities afforded by dress and fashion as gendered sites of agency and affect. Focusing on the relationship between texts and textiles, she demonstrates how dress is central to the narrativization, re-formulation, and re-fashioning of the material past in the present. In its examination of the narrative trajectories, lively vitalities, and material entanglements that accrue to, and originate from, dress in the neo-Victorian novel, this study brings a fresh approach to reading Victorian sartorial culture. For researchers and students of Victorian and neo-Victorian studies, dress history, material culture, and gender studies, this volume offers a rich resource with which to illuminate the power of fashion in fiction"--

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 210
Release Date:: 2025-05-29
Publication Date:: 2025-05-29
Publisher:: Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1350294721
ISBN13:: 9781350294721
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 327 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 12 cm

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