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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501728150
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR830 .M634 2018
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PR830.34 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1035322262

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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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