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Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Lauren S. Cardon
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Paperback. Series: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 15 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKTH; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 328.
During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization—shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness"" to embrace a constructed American identity—was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and sociological texts ranging from Jamestown narratives to immigrant memoirs, from slave narratives to Gone with the Wind, and from the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger to the writings of Barack Obama. Such rhetoric feeds American myths of progress, upward mobility, and personal reinvention.
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During the twentieth century, the rise of the concept of Americanization—shedding ethnic origins and signs of ""otherness"" to embrace a constructed American identity—was accompanied by a rhetoric of personal transformation that would ultimately characterize the American Dream. The theme of self-transformation has remained a central cultural narrative in American literary, political, and sociological texts ranging from Jamestown narratives to immigrant memoirs, from slave narratives to Gone with the Wind, and from the rags-to-riches stories of Horatio Alger to the writings of Barack Obama. Such rhetoric feeds American myths of progress, upward mobility, and personal reinvention.
In Fashion and Fiction, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813938622
SKU
V9780813938622
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About Lauren S. Cardon
Lauren S. Cardon, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA, is the author of The ""White Other"" in American Intermarriage Stories, 1945–2008.
Reviews for Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
Lauren Cardon gives us a broad-spectrum study of how we read, manipulate, blend, and perform fashion in American society and literature. She deftly moves from theory to practice, placing novelists and designers of the Gilded Age in the context of current conversations about the many meanings of fashion. Seeing new patterns in familiar novels, Cardon stitches together a book that ... Read more