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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458423403321

Autore

Koppen Randi

Titolo

Virginia Woolf, fashion, and literary modernity / / R.S. Koppen [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009

ISBN

0-7486-8855-2

0-7486-5191-8

1-282-62039-8

9786612620393

0-7486-4156-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

823.912

Soggetti

Fashion in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modern clothes-consciousness -- From symbolism in loose robes to the figure of the androgyne -- Fashion and literary modernity -- Modernism against fashion -- Civilised minds, fashioned bodies and the nude future -- Hats and veils: texere in the age of rupture.

Sommario/riassunto

This book places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s and theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel.