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Making Margins (in)Visible? Clothes, History, and Unconventional Women in Gillian Armstrong’s film adaptation of Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (1988) tells, among other things, the tale of an unconventional mother and her daughter who shared a passion for factories – and who wore bloomers, garments favoured by Victorian proponents of women’s rights and dress reform. Gillian Armstrong’s 1997 film adaptation, however, chooses to foreground the romance and downplay the novel’s neo-Victorian depiction of feminism, diminishing the role of the unconventional mother in the process. This paper analyses the effects of this change by focusing on the role that clothes play in the portrayal of Victorian gender roles and social rules in the novel and its adaptation.

adaptation; bloomer costume; feminist history; margins/marginal; postcolonial; postfeminist

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