Style and the Single Girl

How Modern Women Re-Dressed the Novel, 1922-1977

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Style and the Single Girl by Hope Howell Hodgkins reveals how four very different single-girl novelists employed modern modes to re-dress the traditional English marriage plot. In the first monograph to use fashion theory and history to trace the literary progress of British women in later modernity, Hodgkins argues that correspondences between a gendered sartorial style and a gendered literary style persisted throughout the modern era. She demonstrates how those correspondences did not fade but became fraught as women matured in the sharply gendered crucible of war. Hodgkins delineates how in the 1920s and 1930s, popular novels by Dorothy Sayers and high-art fiction by Jean Rhys used dress to comment wittily and bitterly on gender relations. During World War II, changes in British Vogue and compromises made by the literary journal Horizon signaled the death of modernist styles, as Elizabeth Bowen's gender-bent wartime stories show. Then demure and reserved postwar styles-Dior's curvy New Look, the Movement's understated literary irony-were intertwined in the fictions of Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark, who re-dressed the novel with a vengeance. Whether fashioning detective fiction, literary impressionism, or postwar comedy, these novelists used style in every sense to redefine that famous question, What do women want?
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Schrijver
Hodgkins, Hope Howell
Titel
Style and the Single Girl
Uitgever
Ohio State University Press
Jaar
2016
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
312
Gewicht
562 gr
EAN
9780814213018
Afmetingen
235 x 159 x 24 mm
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