Self-fashioning in Margaret Atwood's fiction
Subtitle: dress, culture, and identity
By: Cynthia G. Kuhn.
Series: American university studies.; v. 9
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- -- Knowledge -- Clothing and dress.; Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Clothing and dress in literature.; Self-perception in literature.; Fashion in literature.; Women in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-144).
Table of contents: title: "Clothed in words" : Margaret Atwood and dress; title: Border crossing : dress as performative boundary and margin; title: Toxic chic : dress and dreams in The robber bride; title: Amazing space : veils and vogues in Alias Grace; title: Style and text(ile) : a conclusion.