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Newly available in paperback, this study places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s

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Koppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued. Routledge ABES Koppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued.

Table of Contents
List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Modern Clothes-Consciousness; 2. From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne; 3. Fashion and Literary Modernity; 4. Modernism Against Fashion; 5. Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies, and the Nude Future; 6. Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture; Bibliography; Index.

Virginia Woolf Fashion and Literary Modernity

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 07/06/2011
      ISBN13: 9780748642847, 978-0748642847
      ISBN10: 0748642846
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Newly available in paperback, this study places Woolf's writing in the context of sartorial practice from the Victorian period to the 1930s

      Trade Review
      Koppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued. Routledge ABES Koppen's work sets out an elegant and complex argument ! Highly innovative, wide-ranging, meticulously written and carefully argued.

      Table of Contents
      List of illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Modern Clothes-Consciousness; 2. From Symbolism in Loose Robes to the Figure of the Androgyne; 3. Fashion and Literary Modernity; 4. Modernism Against Fashion; 5. Civilised Minds, Fashioned Bodies, and the Nude Future; 6. Hats and Veils: Texere in the Age of Rupture; Bibliography; Index.

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