Political and sartorial styles : Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century /

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Starts with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style. It offers a ground-breaking examination of the role of dress in forming political identities and in communicating social and political messages during a period in which imperi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Morrison, Kevin (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
1800-1899
Clothing and dress > Great Britain > Political aspects > Colonies > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress > Political aspects > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • <P>Introduction: Jim Crow's tuxedo
  • Kevin A. Morrison<br><br><b>Part I: Between metaphor and materiality</b><br>1 Smock frock farmer or smock frock radical? Political interpretations of one garment in nineteenth-century England
  • Alison Toplis<br>2 A delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentleman clients
  • Chris Kent<br>3 Second-hand clothes, second-hand politics: sartorial exchange, social reform, and the work of the novel in Walter Besant's <i>Children of Gibeon</i> -Peter Katz<br><br><b>Part II: Reading appearances</b><br>4 'If you want to get ahead, get a hat': manliness, power, and politics via the top hat
  • Ariel Beaujot<br>5 Dressing for disinterestedness: Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, and John Morley
  • Kevin A. Morrison<br>6 Sartorial subversion and the House of Commons: political identities, meanings and the responses to MPs' dress, <i>c</i>. 1850<i>-</i>1914
  • Marcus Morris<br>7 Dressing for the vote in Ford Madox Brown's <i>Work</i>- Janice Carlisle<br><br><b>Part III: Global connections and entanglements </b><br>8 Spectacles of grandeur and fabrics for the brave: West India regiments' dress through 1900
  • Steeve O. Buckridge<br>9 'The philosophy of clothes': politics and dress in <i>Melbourne Punch</i>, 1860s-70s
  • Shu-chuan Yan<br>10 Gertrude Bell, <i>femme impériale</i>
  • Elizabeth Bishop<br><br>Index</p>

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