Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature

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    • Sheehan, Elizabeth M.

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Modernism à la mode : fashion and the ends of literature

Elizabeth M. Sheehan

Cornell University Press, 2018

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index

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内容説明

Modernism a la Mode argues that fashion describes why and how literary modernism matters in its own historical moment and ours. Bringing together texts, textiles, and theories of dress, Elizabeth Sheehan shows that writers, including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, W.E.B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, turned to fashion to understand what their own stylized works could do in the context of global capital, systemic violence, and social transformation. Modernists engage with fashion as a mood, a set of material objects, and a target of critique, and, in doing so, anticipate and address contemporary debates centered on the uses of literature and literary criticism amidst the supposed crisis in the humanities. A modernist affect with a purpose, no less. By engaging modernism a la mode-that is, contingently, contextually, and in light of contemporary concerns-this book offers an alternative to the often-untenable distinctions between strong or weak, suspicious or reparative, and politically activist or quietist approaches to literature, which frame current debates about literary methodology. As fashion helps us to describe what modernist texts do, it enables us to do more with modernism as a form of inquiry, perception, and critique. Fashion and modernism are interwoven forms of inquiry, perception, and critique, writes Sheehan. It is fashion that puts the work of early twentieth-century writers in conversation with twenty-first century theories of emotion, materiality, animality, beauty, and history.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: fashioning modernism 1. Moods, Modes, Modernism: reading fashionably with virginia woolf 2. Material Concerns: d. h. lawrence, garments, and the matter of fiction 3. "This Great Work of the Creation of Beauty": w. e. b. du bois, black internationalism, and beauty culture 4. Prophets and Historicists: f. scott fitzgerald and paul poiret Coda: the pedagogies of fashion and modernism Notes Works Cited Index

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