The fabric of American literary realism : readymade clothing, social mobility, and assimilation /
Elahi, Babak,1965-
Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
Dress in the North American political imagination -- The discourse of dress and literary realism in the United States -- Henry James's old clothes -- From clothing to nothing : annihilating the self in Sister Carrie -- Dress and mobility in The rise of David Levinsky -- The financial and sartorial fictions of Anzia Yezierska -- The clothing of the American frontier, or, How the West was worn in Willa Cather -- Postscript: A scarf, A shawl, un rebozo.
American fiction
American fiction
Clothing and dress in literature.
Realism in literature.