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Hughes, Clair. Dressed in Fiction. New York: Berg Publishers, 2006. 214 pp. Cloth $99.94 Paper $29.95
CLOTHES make the novel on occasion, as Hughes indicates in her exploration of "the power of dress for the writer of fiction." Clothing has the "unsettling ability to arouse the passions, to seduce, disturb, deceive, and to threaten even the wearer with its occult Otherness,'" and although "novelists do not, after all, send their characters naked into the world ... [literary] criticism has often acted as though they do."...