Table of Contents

• Introduction—Katherine Joslin and Daneen Wardrop
• “Excesses of Every Kind”: Dress and Drag around 1870—Abigail Joseph
• An Epitome of Times and Fashions: Temporality and Textiles in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables—Babak Elahi
• Austen’s Muslin—Laura George
• William Makepeace Thackeray’s Fashionable Humbugs: Consuming National Distinctions of Dress in Vanity Fair—Amy L. Montz
• “Such Hosts of Rags”: Transatlantic Crossings between Paper and Cotton in Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids”—Amber Shaw
• Dressing the Aesthetic Woman, from “Maison Lucile” to Midnight in Paris—Margaret D. Stetz
• Clothing and Colonialism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness—Pouneh Saeedi
• The Midwife’s Clothing: Jessie Fauset In and Out of Fashion—Kimberly Lamm
• Modeling for Men: The Early Jean Rhys—Hope Howell Hodgkins
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Katherine Joslin is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of numerous books including Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion.

Daneen Wardrop is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. Among her many books is Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing.

Reviews

The best of the essays brought together here not only examine how clothes indicate status, taste, conformity, or transgression within specific literary texts and societies but also situate both them and their production within the wider context of history, economics, and politics. Many fresh insights result from such a serious consideration of fashion."" - Avril Horner, emeritus professor of English, Kingston University, London