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by Christopher Rieger (Author)
The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkner's novels and short stories.
Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner's fiction. Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writer's use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner's works. It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer.
Faulkner's Fashion reveals how much attention Faulkner pays to garments and fashion in his own life and in his fiction, arguing that dress is often a means of characterization for Faulkner, while it also connects his narrative representations of gender, sexuality, class, poverty, race, and modernity.
Author Biography
Christopher Rieger is former Professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, USA, and the previous Director of the Center for Faulkner Studies. He is the author of Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature (2009) and the co-editor of six essay collections, including Faulkner and Garcia Marquez (2020), Faulkner and Hemingway (2018), and Faulkner and Morrison (2013). He
currently works for the U.S. Department of State.
