Soft Materiality: Dress and Material Fiction in T.S. Surr's A Winter in London.
As against a recent tendency of material culture scholarship to gravitate towards hard objects, I argue for the special significance of the "soft materiality" of dress, as both a category of material life and a dimension of literary fiction. To do so, I explore both the general theoretical backgroun...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 295 - 317 |
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