Make it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion

By Jan Ellyn Goggans

Book Overview

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 the cultural forms of objects, including apparel, Making it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion provides readers a new understanding of the aims of American writers, and the desires of their readers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032093021
• ISBN13: 9781032093024
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"