Fashioning the domestic ideology : women and the language of fashion in the works of Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, and Elizabeth Keckley
This thesis examines the ways in which Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons, Louisa May Alcott's Behind a Mask and Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House represent the function of fashion and attire in literature. The thesis proposes that each author encourages readers to examine dress in a way that defies the typical domestic ideology of nineteenth century America
Thesis, Dissertation, English, ©2010