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Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 1-19
  3. The Body and Dress of Thought

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-25
    2. Dress and the Discourses of the Mind

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 26-39
    3. Dress in 18th-Century English Life and Literature

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 40-48
  4. Dressing for Success with Pamela

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-53
  5. Window-Shopping the Essential Self with Clarissa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-100
    2. Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 101-107
    3. “Of Her Own Invention”: Revealing the Self

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 108-124
    4. “Where … Art is Designed”: Concealing the Self

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 125-139
  6. Refashioning the World with Sir Charles Grandison

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-152
    2. “A Conformist to Fashion”: Dressing for Duty

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 153-161
    3. “A Mighty Glitter”: Seeing through the Veil

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 162-174
    4. “Dressing in Colours”: Changing the Guard

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 175-194
  7. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Kathleen M. Oliver
      Pages 195-197
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 198-229

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, University of Central Florida, USA

    Kathleen M. Oliver

About the author

KATHLEEN M. OLIVER is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA, where she specializes in British Literature of the long eighteenth century. Previous and forthcoming publications include essays on Daniel Defoe, Sarah Fielding, Samuel Richardson and Frances Sheridan.

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