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Modernism, fashion and interwar women writers

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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.

Title Modernism, fashion and interwar women writers / Vike Martina Plock. [electronic resource]
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Creation Date 2017
Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jan 2018).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Novelty and the Market: Edith Wharton -- Chapter 2 Conformity and Idiosyncrasy: Jean Rhys -- Chapter 3 Patterns: Rosamond Lehmann -- Chapter 4 Ties: Elizabeth Bowen -- Chapter 5 Uniforms and Uniformity: Virginia Woolf -- Envoi -- Bibliography -- Index
Extent 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language English
National Library system number 997010707793705171
MARC RECORDS
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