American Style
Author: Richard Sexton
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
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Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author: Dorri Beam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-06-03
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139489232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
American Style
Author: Kelly Killoren Bensimon
Publisher: Editions Assouline
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782843236082
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Like democracy itself, American Style is a celebration of the individual, the independent, and even on occasion the eccentrically idiosyncratic." [Harold Koda] Courtney Love, Cindy Sherman, Las Vegas, Farrah Fawcett, Charles James, Black Panthers, Donna Karan, Hattie Carnegie, Bonnie Cashin, Bergdorf Goodman, Lilly Pulitzer, Stetson, the Rat Pack, Levi's, Barbie, Diane von Furstenberg, Vanity Fair, Antonio, Tiffany's, Edith Head, Carolina Herrera, Charivari, Madonna, Diane Vreeland, the Playboy Bunny, Russell Simmons... More than 200 American style icons are illustrated and defined in this book dedicated to the ever-changing persona of fashion in the United States. ILLUSTRATIONS 240 colour & b/w illustrations
The American Style
Author: Donald Albrecht
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Published: 2011-06-07
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1580932851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssued in connection with an exhibition held June 7 through Nov 6, 2011, at the Museum of the City of New York.
The United States of Fashion
Author: THE EDITORS OF VOGUE
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2024-03-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0789345129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editors of Vogue, the ultimate authority on fashion, document the post-COVID changes happening across the fashion landscape in America. Celebrating creators, artisans, and visionaries across the country, the book pays tribute to the democratization of American fashion and the creativity and artisanship that is no longer confined to the runways of New York and Los Angeles. In their February 2021 issue, Vogue launched “The United States of Fashion,” a project that shines a spotlight on the creativity and craft flourishing throughout the country. Exploring the innovation and entrepreneurialism that defines American fashion, Vogue goes coast to coast from Detroit to El Paso to Indianapolis to Nashville, where the most exciting new designers are creating and designing locally. This book features a wide array of fashion voices across the nation, who share self-generated images and narratives on how they define and identify with fashion now. New, never-before-seen photographs and anecdotes, not published in the pages of Vogue, come from fashion designers Laura and Kate Mulleavy of Rodarte, Jeremy Scott, and Libertine; photographers Alex Webb and June Canedo; and craftspeople Ariana Boussard-Reifel and Ataumbi Metals. The book contains texts by esteemed writers, from Louise Erdrich’s words on Native American fashion and music editor Suzy Exposito’s account of being goth in Miami, to new ways of creating sustainable, recycled fashion. These accounts create a living biography of the evolution and democratization of fashion today. A rich tapestry of style in America, The United States of Fashion will appeal to readers interested in fashion, design, culture, and photography.
Fashion and Fiction
Author: Lauren S. Cardon
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813938622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring 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, Lauren S. Cardon draws a correlation between the American fashion industry and early twentieth-century literature. As American fashion diverged from a class-conscious industry governed by Parisian designers to become more commercial and democratic, she argues, fashion designers and journalists began appropriating the same themes of self-transformation to market new fashion trends. Cardon illustrates how canonical twentieth-century American writers, including Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Nella Larsen, symbolically used clothing to develop their characters and their narrative of upward mobility. As the industry evolved, Cardon shows, the characters in these texts increasingly enjoyed opportunities for individual expression and identity construction, allowing for temporary performances that offered not escapism but a testing of alternate identities in a quest for self-discovery.
Comedy, American Style
Author: Jessie Redmon Fauset
Publisher:
Published: 1934
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780843400090
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssimilation, American Style
Author: Peter D. Salins
Publisher:
Published: 1997-01-02
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSalins argues that assimilation is part of a larger American social compact that has flourished throughout our history, and to abandon it now would destroy the foundations of our prosperity, our social cohesion, and, ultimately, American culture itself. He shows how successive immigrant populations have become Americanized, despite being considered "alien" in their time-notably, the Germans, Irish, Italians, and Jews-and how assimilation continues to work today among Hispanics and Asians. The book sheds light on the threats to assimilation from the left (multiculturalism) and the right (nativism), revealing the perilous consequences of each.
Literature, American Style
Author: Ezra Tawil
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0812250370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature, American Style finds early U.S. authors self-consciously imitating European literary forms even as they claimed radical originality. The notion of style helped them manage this peculiar contradiction. It was their American use of style, they claimed, that marked their departure from literary precedents.
Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker
Author: Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780873383424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften described as a "gothic novel," this is a classic American tale of mystery and murder with exciting and dramatic plot twists. Charles Brockden Brown is the most frequently studied and republished practitioner of the "early American novel," or the US novel between 1789 and roughly 1820. This volume contains a critical edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, the third of his novels to be published in 1799 and the first to deal with the American wilderness. The basis of the text is the first edition, printed and published by Hugh Maxwell in Philadelphia late in the year, but the "Fragment" printed independently in Brown's Monthly Magazine earlier in 1799 supplies some readings in Chapters 17-20. The Historical Essay, which follows the text, covers matters of composition, publication, historical background, and literary evaluation, and the Textual Essay discusses the transmission of the text, choice of copy-text, and editorial policy. A general textual statement for the entire edition appears in Volume I of the series.
