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Fashion and fiction : self-transformation in twentieth-century American literature / Lauren S. Cardon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cardon, Lauren S., author.
- Series:
- Cultural frames, framing culture.
- Cultural frames/framing culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- Fashion--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Fashion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (230 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As the industry evolved, Cardon shows, the characters in these texts increasingly enjoyed opportunities for individual expression and identity construction, allowing for temporary performances that offered not escapism but a testing of alternate identities in a quest for self-discovery.
- Contents:
- Introduction: fashion in the land of the free
- The free spirit in the Gilded Age
- The social climber in the era of ready-mades
- The immigrant in the era of simplicity
- The modern woman and the slim silhouette
- The black middle class and the primitive
- Conclusion: the Depression and the dawn of American designers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8139-3863-5
- OCLC:
- 944346858
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