Henry James and the Art of Dress
by
C. Hughes
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0333914309
ISBN-13
9780333914304
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2001
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
484 grams
Ksh 16,200.00
Publisher Out of Stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
Hughes traces a development from the significance of dress in discussion of 'the American Girl' in the early works, through dress as an indicator of social position, to the emergence of the more unstable and threatening aspects of dress, which culminate in the strange case of the coat of changing colours in The Sense of the Past.
Henry James was fascinated by clothing and dress. This book examines, for the first time, the role of dress in reinforcing thematic and symbolic patterns in James''s fictional world. Hughes traces a development from the significance of dress in discussion of ''the American Girl'' in the early works, through dress as an indicator of social position, to the emergence of the more unstable and threatening aspects of dress, which culminate in the strange case of the coat of changing colours in The Sense of the Past.
Get Henry James and the Art of Dress by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Palgrave Macmillan and it has pages.
