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1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"An unprecedented sartorial revolution occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century when the tight-laced silhouettes of Victorian women gave way to the figure of the flapper. Modernism, Fashion and Interwar Women Writers demonstrates how five female novelists of the interwar period engaged with an emerging fashion discourse that concealed capitalist modernity's economic reliance on mass-manufactured, uniform-looking productions by ostensibly celebrating originality and difference. For Edith Wharton, Jean Rhys, Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf fashion was never just the provider of guidelines on what to wear. Rather, it was an important concern, offering them opportunities to express their opinions about identity politics, about contemporary gender dynamics and about changing conceptions of authorship and literary productivity. By examining their published work and unpublished correspondence, this book investigates how the chosen authors used fashion terminology to discuss the possibilities available to women to express difference and individuality in a world that actually favoured standardised products and collective formations."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index. |
| Contents |
Novelty and the market: Edith Wharton -- Conformity and idiosyncrasy: Jean Rhys -- Patterns: Rosamond Lehmann -- Ties: Elizabeth Bowen -- Uniforms and Uniformity: Virginia Woolf. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Fashion in literature.
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Fashion in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Plock, Vike Martina. Modernism, fashion and interwar women writers. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] 9781474427418 (DLC) 2017296841 (OCoLC)969414778 |
| ISBN |
9781474427432 (electronic book) |
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147442743X (electronic book) |
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9781474427418 (hardcover) |
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1474427413 (hardcover) |
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9781474427449 (epub) |
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1474427448 (epub) |
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