<i>Faulkner’s Fashion </i>is a deft and long overdue study of sartorial threads in Faulkner (the body of work) and on Faulkner (the body of the author). Through astute and theoretically informed analysis, Rieger attends to Faulkner’s complex rendering of clothing and the material and symbolic forms it assumes in literature and life.

Ted Atkinson, Associate Professor of English, Mississippi State University, USA, and Editor of the Mississippi Quarterly

<i>Faulkner’s Fashion</i> provides a rich study of the importance of clothing across the breadth of the author’s fiction. Rieger employs an impressive array of theoretical and analytical perspectives to reveal the active role clothing plays in Faulkner’s narratives, innovatively demonstrating how Faulkner's characters struggle to communicate their identities in terms of gender, race, and class through fashion.

Ben Robbins, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria

<i>Faulkner’s Fashion</i> is highly original, with eye-opening insights. Thought-provoking and critically engaged, Rieger masterfully close reads gender, race, and class in terms of the much-neglected role of clothing in Faulkner’s novels and short stories. A provocative and substantial contribution to the ever-growing body of scholarship on Faulkner.

Yuko Yamamoto, Associate Professor of American Literature, Chiba University, Japan, and author of “When Faulkner Was in Vogue: The American Women’s Magazine Fashioning a Modernist Icon”