Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction : literacy, textiles, and activism /

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Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing, what Kortsch terms "dress culture." Focusing on novels by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Margaret Oliph...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kortsch, Christine Bayles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2009.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Sewing in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Material culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Culture matérielle dans la littérature.
Culture matérielle > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Clothing and dress in literature
English fiction
English fiction > Women authors
Material culture
Material culture in literature
Sewing in literature
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Writing in fabric, working in print
  • The needle dipped in blood
  • Fashioning women : the Victorian corset
  • Art's labor lost : haunting the dress shop
  • Beautiful revolution : new women sew a new world.

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