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Modernism à la Mode: Fashion and the Ends of Literature by Elizabeth M. Sheehan (review)
Ist Teil von
Studies in the Novel, 2020-10, Vol.52 (3), p.366-368
Ort / Verlag
Denton: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Following a critical introduction that lays out the scope and themes of the project, Sheehan’s book is structured as a series of chapters reading modernist literary texts in the context of, alongside, or against the backdrop of fashion, broadly conceived. In several instances, Sheehan’s skillfully crafted prose eloquently captures the complexity of garments as objects: inspired by Jane Bennett’s work on “enchanted materialism,” for example, Sheehan observes, “Garments seduce and enchant, making the blood flow more quickly, but they also constrict its circulation, making the impress of social convention a matter of touch and feeling” (71). [...]her analysis of the role played by politics and social change in Lawrence’s work— his “antipathy to modern motherhood” and his critique of democracy for producing “homogeneity and mediocrity” (85), or the ambivalent presence of futurist theories of aesthetics, dress, and militant nationalism in his novels and essays such as “Education of the People”—insightfully reveals his effort to reconceive the relationship between the body and both human and nonhuman forces. Fitzgerald navigated perceived value distinctions around periodical publication and literary merit as well as in the recycling of material from short fiction in novel form, and Poiret worked to maintain his role as an artist and arbiter of the changing modes of fashion even as his career began to decline in the post–World War I era.