Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature /
"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"--
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2018.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt21h4vfs |
Sommario:
- 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.