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- Title
Selling Jewels: Modernist Commodification and Disappearance as Style.
- Authors
Duffy, Enda; Boscagli, Maurizia
- Abstract
An essay is presented that discusses the replacement of jewels with money in European fashion from 1890 to 1920 as a change in the nature of consumerism. It examines the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," by Oscar Wilde, the short story "The Blue Carbuncle," by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is a Sherlock Holmes story, and a letter from author James Joyce to his wife Nora Barnacle.
- Subjects
EUROPE; GEMS &; precious stones; FASHION in literature; FASHION history; PICTURE of Dorian Gray, The (Book : Wilde); BLUE Carbuncle, The (Short story); JOYCE, Nora Barnacle, 1884-1951; HISTORY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/mod.2007.0031