At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture Marshik Celia
At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture Marshik Celia In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. They convey wealth, status,…
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At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture Marshik Celia
In much of modern fiction, it is the clothes that make the character. They convey wealth, status, aspiration, and morality (or a lack thereof). Garments embody personal and national histories.
At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature, its reflection of new relations between people and things, and its embodiment of a rapidly changing society confronted by war and cultural and economic upheaval. They suggest where characters have been and where they might be headed, as well as whether or not they are aware of their fate. In some cases, people need garments to realize themselves.
In other cases, the clothes control the person who wears them.Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and middlebrow works, a history of Britain in the early twentieth century, and the insights of thing theory. She focuses on four distinct