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Stephen Matterson - Melville: Fashioning in Modernity - 9781623562007 - V9781623562007
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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

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Description for Melville: Fashioning in Modernity Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 central to some of Melville's major themes; the relation between private and public identity, social inequality and how this is maintained; the relation between power, justice and authority; the relation between the civilized ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623562007
SKU
V9781623562007
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Stephen Matterson
Stephen Matterson is Professor of English Studies and a Fellow of the College at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He is the author or editor of nine books and over sixty articles, essays and reviews on aspects of US literature. His past publications include the Penguin Classics edition of Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man (edited with an Introduction and ... Read more

Reviews for Melville: Fashioning in Modernity
[The] dress-theme proves a fresh and remarkably fertile approach to Melville's prose, and is the basis both for new insights into individual works and for a novel consideration of the broader development of his writing career. ... Matterson's keen eye for detail and parallels, the scholarly rigor of his research and his entertaining writing style draw the reader into a ... Read more

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