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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: fabric of American literary realism
    sub title: readymade clothing, social mobility, and assimilation
  name:
    name part: Elahi, Babak
    name part: 1965-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "This volume traces the connections between the increased economic importance of the garment industry with the advent of a powerful movement towards literary realism in American fiction. This work examines the development of the American ideal from the "homespun" to the "ready made," and explains how that cultural and psychological change appeared in the literature of the nation"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Babak Elahi.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-215) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Clothing and dress in literature
  subject:
    topic: Realism in literature
  classification: PS374.C565 E43 2009
  classification: 813/.009355
  identifier: 9780786441198 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0786441194 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009000611
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090109
    record change date: 20151110094121.0
    record identifier: in00002455452