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Henry James fastens upon the everyday political praxis of fashion in The Princess Cassamassima , his anomalous novel of working-class London and its anarchist movements. James sets transnational female anti-fashion icons—including an American princess turned class transvestite, a cockney shop-girl involved in union agitation, a Victorian dress-maker, and an imprisoned French milliner—against the local and politically limited socialism valued by the novel's male protagonists. In The Princess , James shows how fashion's social practices and imagined communities might cut a new figure for affinity-based politics.

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