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Style and the Single Girl : How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922-1977 / Hope Howell Hodgkins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hodgkins, Hope Howell, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- Fashion in literature.
- Single women in literature.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Fashion--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Fashion.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (342 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: The Subject of Dress
- CHAPTER 1 Introducing Modernism, à la Mode
- PART I The Singular Modern Woman
- CHAPTER 2 The Self-Fashioned Dorothy L. Sayers
- CHAPTER 3 Jean Rhys and Modeling for Men
- PART II The Homefront Style: The War in Vogue and Literature
- CHAPTER 4 How Vogue Changed Clothes in War
- CHAPTER 5 Literature in Wartime
- PART III Stylish Spinsters in a Postwar World
- CHAPTER 6 Pym, Spark, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object
- CHAPTER 7 Spark, Pym, and the Glamorous Ends of Style
- CODA Lasting Modes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-7457-9
- OCLC:
- 1322990682
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