Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature /
Elizabeth M. Sheehan.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
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"--
9781501728150
2018021285
English fiction--History and criticism.--20th century American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century Fashion in literature. Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain. Modernism (Literature)--United States.