Jana Baró González, who was a predoctoral researcher at ADHUC, will defend her doctoral thesis titled New Leaves: Fashionable Reading and Literary Celebrity in British Vogue (1918-1939), supervised by Dr. Helena González Fernández (ADHUC-University of Barcelona). In the interwar period, the British edition of the fashion magazine Vogue claimed the role of guide to a most elegant version of modernity. In addition to new collections and designs, it carried essays, reviews and society chronicles: reading, book circulation, editing and writing were considered expressions of good taste, and all those who wanted to acquire it had to participate in those practices. Within the theoretical framework of Gender and Fashion Studies, and within Middlebrow and Modernist Periodical Studies, this thesis explores which literary genres and ways of reading were fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s, and argues that playfulness and sophistication were always at the core of Vogue’s values.
Public act through Zoom. It is necessary to register 48 hours in advance through the email: helenagonzalez@ub.edu
