Political and sartorial styles : Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century /: Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kevin Morrison.
• Editors: Morrison, Kevin
• Contents: Introduction: Jim Crow’s tuxedo – Kevin A. Morrison; ; Part I: Between metaphor and materiality ; 1 Smock frock farmer or smock frock radical? Political interpretations of one garment in nineteenth-century England – Alison Toplis; 2 A delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentleman clients – Chris Kent; 3 Second-hand clothes, second-hand politics: sartorial exchange, social reform, and the work of the novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon –Peter Katz; ; Part II: Reading appearances ; 4 ‘If you want to get ahead, get a hat’: manliness, power, and politics via the top hat – Ariel Beaujot; 5 Dressing for disinterestedness: Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, and John Morley – Kevin A. Morrison; 6 Sartorial subversion and the House of Commons: political identities, meanings and the responses to MPs’ dress, c . 1850– 1914 – Marcus Morris; 7 Dressing for the vote in Ford Madox Brown’s Work – Janice Carlisle; ; Part III: Global connections and entanglements ; 8 Spectacles of grandeur and fabrics for the brave: West India regiments’ dress through 1900 – Steeve O. Buckridge; 9 ‘The philosophy of clothes’: politics and dress in Melbourne Punch, 1860s–70s – Shu-chuan Yan; 10 Gertrude Bell, femme impériale – Elizabeth Bishop; ; Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 391; Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Clothing and dress -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526153067; 9781526153081
• Related ISBNs: 9781526153074
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