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Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion book cover

1st Edition

Make it Work 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion

By Jan Ellyn Goggans Copyright 2019
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography

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

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