Clothing and landscape in Victorian England : working-class dress and rural life /: working-class dress and rural life. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Rachel Worth.
• Authors: Worth, Rachel
• Contents: Cover; Author bio; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Illustrations; Black- and- White Illustrations; Colour Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Note on Chronology; 1 Change and transition in Victorian England The rural context; A southern landscape of Englishness; The decline of agriculture; The 'condition' of the agricultural labourer: wages, income, poverty and clothing; Rural discontent and trade unionism; Rural-urban migration; Rural history and the history of working-class dress 2 Women's work, education and the domesticity of dress Surveying and documenting the rural (I)The parliamentary commissions of enquiry of 1843 and 1867; The Daily News survey of 1891; 'A woman's place is in the home': the conflicting demands of field work, education and ideals of domesticity; 3 Clothing and its acquisition in a changing society Surveying and documenting the rural (II); Poverty and the scarcity of clothing; Poor relief, charity and clothing clubs; Finding a voice: working-class perceptions of respectability; 4 Painting nostalgia Dress and the vision of a vanishing rural world The development of agricultural landscape paintingEngland's green and pleasant land: dress in agricultural landscape paintings; 5 Photography and rural dress 'Work of art' or documentary realism?; The photograph as a work of art and the representation of landscape; Photography, rural dress and the picturesque; 6 Clothing and the 'counter-myth' in images of rural England; Peter Henry Emerson and 'truth to nature'; The influence of realism and naturalism on the representation of the rural labourer; Dress in the work of George Clausen 7 Thomas Hardy Tradition, fashion and the approach of modernityClothing in fiction; A discourse of change; Rural dress, 'fashion' and the urban; 8 Rural working-class dress Survival, representation and change; Obstacles to survival; Representations of rural working-class dress and museum collections; Male working-class clothing; Female working-class clothing; Conclusion Clothing and landscape; Bibliography; Index; Plates
• Publisher Details: London : I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 212 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 391/.024; Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- 19th century; Working class -- Clothing -- England -- History -- 19th century; Clothing and dress; Working class -- Clothing; Kleidung; Arbeiter; Kunst; Literatur; Landleben; HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming; England; England; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786723451
• Related ISBNs: 178672345X; 9781784533960; 1784533963
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-205) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.