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Series

JSTOR DDA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 : imagining in W.E.B. Du Bois's Dark princess and black beauty culture -- Prophets and historicists : F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Poiret -- Coda : the pedagogies of fashion and modernism.

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.

Note

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2018).

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Fashion in literature.

Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.

Modernism (Literature) -- United States.

Roman anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.

Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.

Modernisme (Littérature) -- Grande-Bretagne.

Modernisme (Littérature) -- États-Unis.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

DESIGN -- Fashion.

American fiction

English fiction

Fashion in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Great Britain

United States

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Form:

Print version: Sheehan, Elizabeth M. Modernism à la mode. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501727726 (DLC) 2018015841

ISBN

9781501728150 (electronic book)

1501728156 (electronic book)

9781501728167

1501728164

9781501727726 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

1501727729

9781501727726