Clothing and landscape in Victorian England : working-class dress and rural life / Rachel Worth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worth, Rachel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clothing and dress--England--History--19th century.

Clothing and dress.

Working class--Clothing--England--History--19th century.

Working class.

Physical Description:

x, 212p. ; ill.

Other Title:

Working-class dress and rural life

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B.Tauris, 2018.

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working classes was represented visually in paintings and photographs and by the literary sources of documentary, autobiography and fiction, as well as by the particular pattern of survival and collection by museums of garments of rural provenance. Rachel Worth explores ways in which clothing and how it is represented throws light on wider social and cultural aspects of society, as well as how 'traditional' styles of dress, like men's smock-frocks or women's sun-bonnets, came to be replaced by 'fashion'. Her compelling study, with black & white and colour illustrations, both adds a broader dimension to the history of dress by considering it within the social and cultural context of its time and discusses how clothing enriches our understanding of the social history of the Victorian period."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Change and Transition in Victorian England : The rural context

Chapter 2. Women's Work, Education and the Domesticity of Dress : Surveying and documenting the rural (I)

Chapter 3. Clothing and its Acquisition in a Changing Society : Surveying and documenting the rural (II)

Chapter 4. Painting Nostalgia : Dress and the vision of a vanishing rural world

Chapter 5. Photography and Rural Dress : 'Work of art' or documentary realism?

Chapter 6. Clothing and the 'Counter-Myth' in Images of Rural England

Chapter 7. Thomas Hardy : Tradition, fashion and the approach of modernity

Chapter 8. Rural Working-Class Dress : Survival, representation and change

Conclusion : Clothing and landscape

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Plates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 06, 2020)

ISBN:

9781350985759

1350985759

9781786733450

1786733455

9781786723451

178672345X

OCLC:

1162671402