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Sledge, Rosa Arrington Heath.

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Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature.

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Title/Author:	Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature./
Author:	Sledge, Rosa Arrington Heath.
Description:	309 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3703934
ISBN:	9781321760514

Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature.
Sledge, Rosa Arrington Heath.

Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature. - 309 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2015.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

We are nothing without clothes, and American novelists of the nineteenth century, with their careful attention to hats, trains, ruffles, corsets, and shoes, know it. This dissertation examines the ways in which, at the tumultuous end of the nineteenth century, two kinds of reading---the reading of dress and the reading of novels --- affect one another. As America becomes increasingly urbanized, and as advances in manufacturing (sewing machines, commercially-available sewing patterns) and marketing (the rise of the department store and the mail-order catalog) change the fashion industry, Americans read dress differently. This change in readership also changes the late-century novel: naturalism and realism, which emerge in response to midcentury domestic sentimentalism and revise both its stylistic and philosophical tenets, show an increasing reliance on their reader's active interpretation of texts. A close examination of the works of Theodore Dreiser and of Henry James, alongside contemporary theories of acting, of psychology, of philosophy, and of semiotics, offers a re-evaluation for the modern critic of the role that clothes (and other types of self-representations) play in the development of identity. For James, the problem of the self is to externalize itself (by dressing itself) in such a way as to invite proper readings of that self. This is a problem of readership: how can one ensure that his utterances---fashionable or literary---are properly read? For Dreiser the self does not exist until it creates itself---a problem of authorship.

ISBN: 9781321760514Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature.

Reading fashions, fashioning readings: Genre, style, and sartorial semiotics in nineteenth-century American literature.
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