Style and the Single Girl (inbunden, english) Ohio State University Press

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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 relationsDuring 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 N

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