Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life

ISBN-13: 9781784533960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 224 str.

Rachel Worth

Opis

At the beginning of the Victorian period, most of England's population lived in the countryside; by its end, the balance had tipped towards living in urban and suburban spaces. 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 sheds 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, which includes both black and white and color illustrations, 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.

At the beginning of the Victorian period, most of England's population lived in the countryside; by its end, the balance had tipped towards living in urban and suburban spaces.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Rural Vision in the Context of Change Chapter 1: Change and Transition in Victorian England: The Rural Context Chapter 2: Surveying and Documenting the Rural: Work, Education and the Domesticity of Dress Chapter 3: Clothing and its Acquisition in a Changing Society Chapter 4: ‘Painting’ Nostalgia: Dress and Visions of a Vanishing Rural World Chapter 5: Dress and the ‘Counter-Myth’ in Images of Rural England Chapter 6: The Dialectics of Fashion and Tradition: Approaching Modernity Chapter 7: Rural Working-Class Dress: Survival and Representation Conclusion: Clothing and Landscape Bibliography Index