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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth M. Sheehan , Elizabeth M. SheehanPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.907kg ISBN: 9781501727726ISBN 10: 1501727729 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 15 October 2018 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: fashioning modernism 1. Moods, Modes, Modernism: reading fashionably with virginia woolf 2. Material Concerns: d. h. lawrence, garments, and the matter of fiction 3. ""This Great Work of the Creation of Beauty"": w. e. b. du bois, black internationalism, and beauty culture 4. Prophets and Historicists: f. scott fitzgerald and paul poiret Coda: the pedagogies of fashion and modernism Notes Works Cited Index"ReviewsIn this cultural study, Elizabeth M. Sheehan presents a nuanced critique of modernism's relations with fashion, which variously involve convention, tradition, novelty, consumerism, individualism, and desire to shock or transform culture. * D.H. LAWRENCE REVIEW * Extremely erudite and groundbreaking, this study promises to become one of the standards in fashion, culture, * CRITICISM * Modernism a la Mode will be useful not only to specialists in the novel, fashion history, and critical theory, but also to readers interested in new methodologies for literary criticism. It is an instructive and insightful read, and will undoubtedly have an enduring relevance and legacy for future generations of scholars. * Studies in the Novel * At a time when many of us worry about institutions we have long taken for granted-the college/university, the Supreme Court-it is heartening to read this important book, which reminds us that the texture of fashion can be a way of knowing the world we live in and, equally important, of imagining what might be. * Woolf Studies Annual * At a time when many of us worry about institutions we have long taken for granted-the college/university, the Supreme Court-it is heartening to read this important book, which reminds us that the texture of fashion can be a way of knowing the world we live in and, equally important, of imagining what might be. * Woolf Studies Annual * Modernism a la Mode will be useful not only to specialists in the novel, fashion history, and critical theory, but also to readers interested in new methodologies for literary criticism. It is an instructive and insightful read, and will undoubtedly have an enduring relevance and legacy for future generations of scholars. * Studies in the Novel * Extremely erudite and groundbreaking, this study promises to become one of the standards in fashion, culture, * CRITICISM * In this cultural study, Elizabeth M. Sheehan presents a nuanced critique of modernism's relations with fashion, which variously involve convention, tradition, novelty, consumerism, individualism, and desire to shock or transform culture. * D.H. LAWRENCE REVIEW * Modernism a la Mode is elegant, incisive, concise, and lucid. Elizabeth Sheehan's command of the fields of modernist studies and contemporary theory is nothing less than stunning, as are her original interpretations of literary works and her knowledge of fashion history. -- Rishona Zimring, Professor of English, Lewis & Clark College, and author of <I>Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain</I> Modernism a la Mode is a highly original study of fashionability as a modern cultural phenomenon and mode of perception. Elizabeth Sheehan's broader thinking through of fashion and the project of being 'in the mode' makes this book a sparkling read. -- Barbara Green, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame, and editor of the <I>Journal of Modern Periodical Studies</I> Modernism � la Mode is elegant, incisive, concise, and lucid. Elizabeth Sheehan's command of the fields of modernist studies and contemporary theory is nothing less than stunning, as are her original interpretations of literary works and her knowledge of fashion history. --Rishona Zimring, Professor of English, Lewis & Clark College, and author of Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain Modernism � la Mode is a highly original study of fashionability as a modern cultural phenomenon and mode of perception. Elizabeth Sheehan's broader thinking through of fashion and the project of being 'in the mode' makes this book a sparkling read. --Barbara Green, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies, University of Notre Dame, and editor of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies Author InformationElizabeth M. Sheehan is Assistant Professor of English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She is coeditor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion. 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