Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity places Woolf´s writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s, and theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C....
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Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity places Woolf´s writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s, and theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel. Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture and modernism, the book explores the modern fascination with sartorial fashion as well as with clothes as objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.Fashion was deeply implicated with the nineteenth-century modern and remained in focus for the modernities that continued to be proclaimed in the
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 Modern Clothes-consciousness; Chapter 2 From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne; Chapter 3 Fashion and Literary Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernism against Fashion; Chapter 5 Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies and the Nude Future; Chapter 6 Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture; Bibliography; Index
