At the Mercy of Their Clothes : : Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture / / Celia Marshik.
In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. Garments embody personal and national histories. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they are...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Modernist Latitudes
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: At the Mercy of Their Clothes
- 1. What Do Women Want?
- 2. Wearable Memorials:
- 3. Aspiration to the Extraordinary:
- 4. Serialized Selves
- Coda:
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index