Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Jennie Batchelor

Dress, Distress and Desire: Clothing and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Jennie Batchelor

240 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction informative medium-paced
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Dress, Distress and Desire brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's magazines to investigate the pressures that the growth of the fashion market placed on conceptions of femal...

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