Henry James and the Art of Dress

Hughes, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-01-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333914304

DOI: 10.1057/9780230287761

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 216