Emily Dickinson and the labor of clothing
By: Daneen Wardrop.
Series: Becoming modern: new nineteenth-century studies; Reading dress series
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.H; Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584657804
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Clothing; Clothing and dress in literature; Class consciousness in literature; Clothing trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  " . . . time would fail me to enumerate my appearance . . ."; title: Dickinson's fashion  "Won't you tell 'the public' that at present I wear a brown dress . . ."; title: Dress the maker  ". . . I finish Mama's sacque, all but the overcastting . . ."; title: "Kelley Square" and "The Crossing"  "But the whistle calls me; "; title: The body's body: tippet, basque, gaiters, pantalettes  "I asked him how you looked, and what you wore . . ."; title: The bonnet of Dickinson's family  "Mother wants me to say that if you like Aunt L's bonnet . . ."; title: Lace Theory  "as laces just reveal the surge "; title: Conclusion:  "pierce me with a fashion"