This critical study traces the connections between the rising economic importance of the garment industry and the advent of a powerful movement towards literary realism in American fiction. Examining the works of Henry James, Theodor Dreiser, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Willa Cather and the shifting of the American ideal from the "homespun" to the "ready made," it explains how that cultural and psychological change appeared in the new literature of the nation.
This critical study traces the connections between the rising economic importance of the garment industry and the advent of a powerful movement towards literary realism in American fiction. Examining the works of Henry James, Theodor Dreiser, Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, and Willa Cather and the shifting of the American ideal from the "homespun" to the "ready made," it explains how that cultural and psychological change appeared in the new literature of the nation.
Babak Elahi writes on labor and literacy and the Iranian diaspora. Currently he is an associate professor in the Department of English at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface CHAPTER Dress in the North American Political Imagination CHAPTER The Discourse of Dress and Literary Realism in the United States CHAPTER Henry James's Old Clothes CHAPTER From Clothing to Nothing: Annihilating the Self in Sister Carrie CHAPTER Dress and Mobility in The Rise of David Levinsky CHAPTER The Financial and Sartorial Fictions of Anzia Yezierska CHAPTER The Clothing of the American Frontier: or How the West Was Worn in Willa Cather POSTSCRIPT A Scarf, a Shawl, un Rebozo Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface CHAPTER Dress in the North American Political Imagination CHAPTER The Discourse of Dress and Literary Realism in the United States CHAPTER Henry James's Old Clothes CHAPTER From Clothing to Nothing: Annihilating the Self in Sister Carrie CHAPTER Dress and Mobility in The Rise of David Levinsky CHAPTER The Financial and Sartorial Fictions of Anzia Yezierska CHAPTER The Clothing of the American Frontier: or How the West Was Worn in Willa Cather POSTSCRIPT A Scarf, a Shawl, un Rebozo Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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