Thomas Hardy Writing Dress

Simon Gatrell

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English

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
26 April 2023

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; ELT background & reference material; Regional studies; Gender studies, gender groups

This new study provides fresh readings of Thomas Hardy’s work and illuminates the social and cultural history of dress in the nineteenth century. The book argues that Hardy had a more detailed and acute understanding of the importance of dress in forming and regulating personal identity and social relations than any other writer of his time. Structured thematically, it takes into account both nineteenth-century and modern theoretical approaches to the significance of what we wear. The author gives an extended analysis of individual works by Hardy, showing, for example, that A Pair of Blue Eyes is central to the study of the function of clothing in the expression and perception of sexuality. The Hand of Ethelberta, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles and The Woodlanders are examined in order to show the extent to which dress obscures or reveals the nature of the self. Hardy’s other novels, as well as the short stories and poems, are used to confirm the centrality of dress and clothing in Hardy’s work. The book also raises issues such as the gendering of dress, cross-dressing, work clothes and working with clothes, dress and the environment, the symbolism of colour in clothes, and the dress conventions relating to death.

By: Simon Gatrell
Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 503g
ISBN: 9781803740133
ISBN 10: 1803740132
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 26 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Dress and Personality; Dress and Identity – Dress, the Body and Sexuality – Gloves – Hair – Boots and Shoes in Under the Greenwood Tree – Dress as Gendered Experience – Cross-Dressing in Wessex – Dress in Society – Coloured Clothes – Clothing the World, the World and Clothing: The Return of the Native – Dress and Death – ‘Visible Essences’.

Simon Gatrell is Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He has written on diverse topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century English and Irish literature, but has made the poetry and fiction of Thomas Hardy a particular focus of attention in his work both as a critic and as a scholarly editor. His conversion to the fundamental significance of dress in literature is relatively recent.