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Author Sheehan, Elizabeth M., author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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.
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Subject English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Fashion in literature.
Fashion in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
United States.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Sheehan, Elizabeth M. Modernism à la mode. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501727726 (DLC) 2018015841
ISBN 9781501728150 (electronic book)
1501728156 (electronic book)
9781501728167
1501728164
9781501727726 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)