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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Elahi, Babak, 1965-
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:	American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Clothing and dress in literature. Realism in literature.
Physical Description:	vii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

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.