Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion
Author:   Jan Ellyn Goggans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367203139


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   25 April 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Jan Ellyn Goggans
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367203139


ISBN 10:   0367203138
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   25 April 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"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"

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

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