Fashion and Fiction : Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature /
During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization-shedding ethnic origins and signs of "otherness" to embrace a constructed American identity-was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
[2016]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: fashion in the land of the free
- The free spirit in the Gilded Age
- The social climber in the era of ready-mades
- The immigrant in the era of simplicity
- The modern woman and the slim silhouette
- The black middle class and the primitive
- Conclusion: the Depression and the dawn of American designers.