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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780805103321

Autore

Kortsch Christine Bayles

Titolo

Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction [[electronic resource] ] : literacy, textiles, and activism / / Christine Bayles Kortsch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009

ISBN

1-315-57811-5

1-317-14800-2

1-317-14799-5

1-282-38266-7

9786612382666

0-7546-9458-5

Descrizione fisica

1 recurso en línea (212 páginas)

Disciplina

823.8'09355-dc22

823/.8093564

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Writing in Fabric, Working in Print; 2 The Needle Dipped in Blood; 3 Fashioning Women: The Victorian Corset; 4 Art's Labor Lost: Haunting the Dress Shop; 5 Beautiful Revolution: New Women Sew a New World; Afterword: Ode to a Dishrag; Bibliography; Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Oliphant, and Gertrude Dix and periodicals like The Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine, Kortsch's book broadens our view



of New Woman fiction and its relationship both to dress culture and to contemporary women's fiction.