Faulkners Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing
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Publishing Details
Faulkners Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing
By (Author) Professor Christopher Rieger
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
14th December 2023
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Cultural studies: dress and society
813.52
Physical Properties
Hardback
184
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Description
The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkners novels and short stories. Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkners fiction. Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writers use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkners works. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer. Faulkner's Fashion reveals how much attention Faulkner pays to garments and fashion in his own life and in his fiction, arguing that dress is often a means of characterization for Faulkner, while it also connects his narrative representations of gender, sexuality, class, poverty, race, and modernity.
Author Bio
Christopher Rieger is Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, USA, and the Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies.
