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Chapter 5 “Intollerable excesse and bravery”: On Dressing Up in Puritan New England |
Chapter 6 “Let your Apparel manifest your Mind”: Dress and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature |
Chapter 7 “Do you understand muslins, sir?”: Fashioning Gender in Northanger Abbey |
Chapter 8 Mary Jane Holmes and the Triumph of Fashion in Ethelyn’s Mistake |
Chapter 9 “One—hundred—hours”: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Dress Reform Writing |
Chapter 10 A Heterogeneous Thing: Transvestism and Hybridity in Jane Eyre |