Abstract
One of the most potent ways in which the past resonates in the present is via clothing; it is both so distant and yet so familiar to us, and so effective at recalling both a vanished period, and the intimacy of personal emotions. A comparison of the ways dress is used in Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is the focus of this essay.
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