Title: Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form /
Authors: Brown, Judith
Publisher: Cornell University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; English literature History and criticism; Glamour in literature.; Modernism (Literature) United States; Modernism (Literature) Great Britain; Glamour Social aspects United States.; Glamour Social aspects Great Britain.; Modernism (Aesthetics) Social aspects United States.; Modernism (Aesthetics) Social aspects Great Britain.
Contents: Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness.