Fashion and Literature

Elizabeth M. Sheehan is Associate Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Modernism á la Mode: Fashion and the Ends of Literature (2018) and co-editor of Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion. She co-edits of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies.

• Introduction: On Fashion and Literature Elizabeth M. Sheehan; Part I. Origins: 1. The fashionable Middle Ages: shared, unshared, entangled Andrea Denny-Brown; 2. C is the cotton-field: American fashion, literature, and slavery Danielle Skeehan; 3. Intertextual Fashion: influencer journalism and the nineteenth-century French realist novel Susan Hiner; 4. Fashioning feminism in interwar British women's magazines Barbara Green; 5. The literary, fashion, race (and the grammar/glamour of it all) Monica Miller; Part II. Developments: 6. Dresses that don't need women: fashion, race, feminism, and the vagaries of objecthood Anne Anlin Cheng; 7. The movements of fashion and material culture Chloe Wigston Smith; 8. 'A decent standard of life and dress': fashion, romance, and feminist labor politics in Ellen Wilkinson's Clash Lise Shapiro Sanders; 9. Trans fashion/trans fashioning Simone Chess; 10. At the intersection of literary and sartorial form in Tagore Judith Brown and Anushka Sen; 11. Models of dressed selfhood in neoliberal feminist digital wedding media Ilya Parkins; 12. Fashion modeling, risk, and 'Muslim Chic' Vanita Reddy; Part III. Applications: 13. Oscar Wilde's flesh and fashion's failures Natalie Prizel; 14. A feminist defense of fashion and gender equality in seventeenth-century Italy Eugenia Paulicelli; 15. Writing sustainable feminist historiography with Mina Loy Sophie Oliver; 16. Unprotected: white gloves and black femininity in Ann Petry's The Street Miriam Thaggert; 17. La Factoría: recarity and assimilation in Melissa Rivero's The Affairs of the Falcóns Catherine S. Ramírez; 18. Weathering diaspora in Rajni Perera's 'A Primordial Culture' Balbir K. Singh.