Virginia Woolf, Fashion and Literary Modernity
Regular price
€33.99
14 days return policy
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Dr. R. S. Koppen
A01=R. S. Koppen
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Dr. R. S. Koppen
Author_R. S. Koppen
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSBH
Category=DSK
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
Literary Studies
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9780748642847
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Places Woolf´s writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s.Bringing together studies in fashion, body culture and modernism, these 6 chapters place Woolf´s writing in the context of contemporary European fashions, sartorial practices and projects of dress reform. Drawing on theories of dress and fashion from Thomas Carlyle to Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis and J.C. Flugel, the book explores the modernist fascination with clothes as objects, signs, things, and embodied practice.Clothes facilitate explorations in modern materialism by, for instance, informing surrealist attempts to think the materiality of things outside the system of commodities and their fetishisation. Woolf´s work as a cultural analyst and writer of fiction provides illuminating illustrations of all of these aspects, 'thinking through clothes' in representations of the present, investigations of the archives of the past, and projections for the future.
R.S. Koppen is Professor in British literature in the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Bergen. Dr. Koppen has published articles on modern literature and drama in New Literary History and Modern Drama, and a monograph on contemporary feminist theatre (Scenes of Infidelity: Feminism in the Theatre, Oslo: Solum, 1997). She has also published on the topic of fashion in the Selected Papers of the Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference (2006 and 2007). Current book projects include a collection of essays on Literature and Science, of which she is a co-editor.
