{"product_id":"style-and-the-single-girl-how-modern-women-redressed-the-novel-19221977-9780814213018","title":"Style and the Single Girl How Modern Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eStyle and the Single Girl\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHodgkins 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 \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e and compromises made by the literary journal \u003ci\u003eHorizon\u003c\/i\u003e signaled the death of modernist styles, as Elizabeth Bowen''s gender-bent wartime stories show. Then demure a\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884685111639,"sku":"9780814213018","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/style-and-the-single-girl-how-modern-women-redressed-the-novel-19221977-9780814213018","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}