Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction

Danielle Mariann Dove is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Surrey, UK. Her research and publications centre on Victorian and neo-Victorian literature with a specific focus on material culture, dress history, and literary celebrity.

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Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Re-Fashioning the Victorians
Re-Fashioning the Past
Reading and Writing Dress: Texts and Textiles
(Neo-)Victorian Sartorial and Material Culture
Neo-Victorian Fashions: Chapter Outlines
2. Gowns
Neo-Victorianism and New Materialism
Dynamic Dresses in The Master
Sartorial Entanglements in Alias Grace
3. Gloves
Fashioning Identity, Agency, and Desire in Waters’s Neo-Victorian Trilogy
‘The impress of her hand’: Victorian Gloves
Neo-Victorian Gloves: Touch, Materiality, and Queer Desire
Material Traces of the Past
4. Veils
Victorian Veils
Neo-Victorian Veils
Veils and Canvases in The Ghost Writer: Revealing the Past
Veils, Bindings, Skin: Concealing Bodies and Books in The Journal of Dora Damage
5. Jewellery
Ornamenting the Victorian Woman
Heirlooms and Afterlives: Jewellery in Great Expectations and Havisham
‘Talisman’ Turquoises and ‘Poisoned’ Diamonds in Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index