Scripts, skirts, and stays : femininity and dress in fiction by German women writers, 1840-1910
This thesis examines the importance of sartorial detail in fiction by German women writers of the nineteenth century. Using a methodology based on Judith Butler’s gender theory, it examines how femininity is perceived and presented and argues that clothes are essential to female characterisation and...
Main Author: | Nevin, Elodie |
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Birkbeck (University of London)
2015
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.667784 |
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