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Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature / Elizabeth M. Sheehan.
LIBRA PN3352.F37 S54 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheehan, Elizabeth M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Fashion in literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "This book puts the work of early twentieth-century texts in conversation with twenty-first-century theories of affect, materiality, animality, beauty, and history and explores how fashion describes the limits and possibilities for modernist aesthetic and political transformation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : fashioning modernism
- Moods, modes, modernism : reading fashionably with Virginia Woolf
- Material concerns : D.H. Lawrence, garments, and the matter of fiction
- "This great work of the creation of beauty" : W.E.B. Du Bois, Black internationalism, and beauty culture
- Prophets and historicists : F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Poiret
- Coda : the pedagogies of fashion and modernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Sheehan, Elizabeth M., author. Modernism à la mode
- ISBN:
- 9781501727726
- 1501727729
- OCLC:
- 1033563730
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