Fashion and Fiction : Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cardon, Lauren S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Fashion > Social aspects.
Clothing and dress in literature.
American fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Fashion > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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