Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature / Elizabeth M. Sheehan.

Author/creator Sheehan, Elizabeth M. author.
Format Electronic
PublicationIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
Subjects

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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2018).
Issued in other formPrint version: Sheehan, Elizabeth M. Modernism à la mode. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501727726
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2018021285
ISBN9781501728150 (electronic book)
ISBN1501728156 (electronic book)
ISBN(hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Stock number22573/ctt21g8ndr JSTOR

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