Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature

by Lauren S Cardon and Lauren S. Cardon

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813938627
• ISBN13: 9780813938622
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"