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Our Next Event

Dressing Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton

Presentation and Book Signing by
Dr. Daneen Wardrop and Dr. Katherine Joslin

DANEEN WARDROP is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of two previous books, Word, Birth, and Culture in the Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson and Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge. Professor Wardrop's new book is Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing. It identifies and uses the dating tools of fashion to place the references to clothing in Dickinson's letters and poems. It also locates her social standing through examining her fashion choices in the iconic daguerreotype.

KATHERINE JOSLIN is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Jane Addams, A Writer's Life and Edith Wharton in Palgrave Macmillan's Women Writers Series. Her latest book, Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion, traces American patronage of the Paris couture houses including Worth, Doucet, Poiret and Chanel. It places Wharton's characters in these establishments and garments to offer fresh readings of her well-known novels.

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Edwin and Mary Meader Rare Book Room
3rd Floor of Waldo Library
Western Michigan University
Friday, November 13, 2009
3:30pm - 5:30pm
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