Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

by Stephen Matterson

Book Overview

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity. The representation of clothing in the fiction is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623563674
• ISBN13: 9781623563677
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.8"