R. S. Koppen

Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s.Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture and modernism, these 6 chapters place Woolf's writing in the context of contemporary European fashions, sartorial practices and projects of dress reform. Drawing on theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel, the book explores the modernist fascination with clothes as objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.Clothes facilitate explorations in modern materialism by, for instance, informing surrealist attempts to think the materiality of things outside the system of commodities and their fetishisation. Woolf's work as a cultural analyst and writer of fiction provides illuminating illustrations of all of these aspects, 'thinking through clothes' in representations of the present, investigations of the archives of the past, and projections for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748688555
• Artikelnr.: 56904005

Autorenporträt

R.S. Koppen is Professor in British literature in the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Bergen. Dr. Koppen has published articles on modern literature and drama in New Literary History and Modern Drama, and a monograph on contemporary feminist theatre (Scenes of Infidelity: Feminism in the Theatre, Oslo: Solum, 1997). She has also published on the topic of fashion in the Selected Papers of the Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (2006 and 2007). Current book projects include a collection of essays on Literature and Science, of which she is a co-editor.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Modern Clothes-Consciousness
2. From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne
3. Fashion and Literary Modernity
4. Modernism Against Fashion
5. Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies, and the Nude Future
6. Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture
Bibliography
Index.