TY - JOUR
AU1 - Boddy, Kasia
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AB - KASIA BODDY “No Stropping, No Honing”: Modernism’s Safety Razors At the beginning of the twentieth century, talk of “American invaders” preoccupied the British press. “The wolf is really amongst us this time,” Benjamin Thwaite warned readers; the “progress” of the United States had been nothing short of “triumphal.” Serial jeremiadist William T. Stead agreed: “outstripped and overshadowed by the American,” the British would need to console themselves with “traditional glories,” such as Shakespeare. The “invasion” which they evoked was, of course, not military but commercial: booming American manufacturers needed new markets, and “because of its accessible language, and the openness and size of its empire, Britain was the key destination.” “We have almost got to this,” lamented Fred Mackenzie in the Daily Mail in 1900: The average citizen wakes in the morning to the sound of an American alarum clock; rises from his New England sheets, and shaves with his New York soap, and a Yankee safety razor. And so the day begins. But Mackenzie, and Americanisation, are only getting started; leaving home, the British “citizen” cannot move except by “American- fitted railways,” “Yankee elevators,” and “a Nebraskan swivel chair.” Many of the items Mackenzie lists remain generically American, 
TI - “No Stropping, No Honing”: Modernism’s Safety Razors
JF - Affirmations: of the modern
DO - 10.57009/am.84
DA - 2015-09-30
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/no-stropping-no-honing-modernism-s-safety-razors-02PHiGUfUr
DP - DeepDyve
ER -