The fabric of American literary realism : readymade clothing, social mobility, and assimilation / Babak Elahi.

"This volume traces the connections between the increased economic importance of the garment industry with the advent of a powerful movement towards literary realism in American fiction. This work examines the development of the American ideal from the "homespun" to the "ready made," and explains ho...

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Main Author: Elahi, Babak, 1965-
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009], ©2009.
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Physical Description:vii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Dress in the North American political imagination -- The discourse of dress and literary realism in the United States -- Henry James's old clothes -- From clothing to nothing : annihilating the self in Sister Carrie -- Dress and mobility in The rise of David Levinsky -- The financial and sartorial fictions of Anzia Yezierska -- The clothing of the American frontier, or, How the West was worn in Willa Cather -- Postscript: A scarf, A shawl, un rebozo. 
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