Faulkner’s Fashion: Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing

The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkners novels and short stories, Faulkner's Fashion analyzes the writers use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkners works. It 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 also connecting his narrative representations of gender, sexuality, class, poverty, race, and modernity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The first book-length study of clothing and dress across William Faulkners novels and short stories, Faulkner's Fashion: An Analysis of Clothing in Faulkner's Fiction, examines the writer's use of clothing from various critical perspectives, exploring how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender throughout Faulkner's works. It also considers clothing as a material object, employing Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to shed light on the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning for both the wearer and the observer. Faulkner's Fashion reveals Faulkner's keen attention to garments and fashion in his own life and fiction, asserting that dress is often a means of characterization for Faulkner while also connecting his narrative representations of gender, sexuality, class, poverty, race, and modernity.

Weight: 414g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9798765103944