Make it Work

20th Century American Fiction and Fashion
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-20313-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goggans, Jan Ellyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Modedesign, Stoffe, Schmuckdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part One: Fashion in Fiction; Fiction as Fashion 1. Edith Wharton: Fashioning White Privilege as Commodification, Consumption, and Corruption. 2. Margaret Mitchell: Fashioning A-Historical and Anti-Canonical White Modernism. 3. Toni Morrison: Re fashioning white privilege Part Two: Scripting Style and Signifyng Scripts 4. "Fashioning Color: Skin-tone Discrimination and Anglo Normative Passing" 5. "Fashioning Class: Creating Canonical Costume" 6. "Fashioning the Home: Deploying Domesticity and The Saturated Home" 7. "Fashioning the Self: Sewing, Designing, and Dressed in Dreams" 8. "Re-fashioning Age" Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Jan Ellyn Goggans is an Associate Professor of Literature & Language, Humanities & World Cultures at the University of California, Merced.