Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion''s idiom of currency and obsolescence to link n...