Samuel Richardson, Dress, and Discourse

1. Introduction
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Part I. The Body and Dress of Thought

2. Dress and the Discourses of the Mind
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3. Dress in 18th-Century English Life and Literature
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Part II. Dressing for Success with Pamela

4. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Servants: Virtue and the Domestic Ideal
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5. “So Neat, So Clean, So Pretty!”: Dressing Up Virtue
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6. Quaker, Rustic, and Fool: Masquerading with Mrs. B.
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Part III. Window-Shopping the Essential Self with Clarissa

7. Virtuous Stays and Sexual Hoops: The Social Self
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8. “Of Her Own Invention”: Revealing the Self
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9. “Where … Art is Designed”: Concealing the Self
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Part IV. Refashioning the World with Sir Charles Grandison

10. “A Conformist to Fashion”: Dressing for Duty
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11. “A Mighty Glitter”: Seeing through the Veil
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12. “Dressing in Colours”: Changing the Guard
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13. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature