| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 100 |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 100.
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| Contents |
Fashion in Fiction, Fiction as Fashion. Edith Wharton: Fashioning White Privilege as Commodification, Consumption, and Corruption -- Margaret Mitchell: Fashioning A-Historical and Anti-Canonical White Modernism -- Toni Morrison: Re fashioning white privilege -- Scripting Style and Signifyng Scripts. Fashioning Color: Skin-tone Discrimination and Anglo Normative Passing -- Fashioning Class: Creating Canonical Costume -- Fashioning the Home: Deploying Domesticity and The Saturated Home -- Fashioning the Self: Sewing, Designing, and Dressed in Dreams -- Re-fashioning Age -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths to achieving white femininity, a prized component of many novels written by and for women. Drawing on cultural materialism and its connection to the cultural forms of objects, including apparel, Making it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion provides readers a new understanding of the aims of American writers, and the desires of their readers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-171) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American fiction
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Clothing and dress in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019462913 |
| ISBN |
9780429536403 |
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0429536402 |
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9780429522932 |
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0429522932 |
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9780429551109 |
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042955110X |
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9780429260810 |
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0429260814 |
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