1st Edition

Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines

By Alice Wood Copyright 2020
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar  Vogue  (UK),  Eve ,  Good Housekeeping  (UK), and  Harper’s Bazaar  (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was received and disseminated by these fashion and domestic periodicals and recovers experimental... Read more

Introduction

1.Mediating Modernity

2.Modernism in Fashion

3.Dissident Voices and Feminist Experiment

4.Modernist Reputations

Coda

Appendices

Biography

Alice Wood is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, UK.