03085nam 2200697Ia 450 991078080510332120230721025240.01-315-57811-51-317-14800-21-317-14799-51-282-38266-797866123826660-7546-9458-5(CKB)2550000000000370(EBL)476382(OCoLC)498502038(SSID)ssj0000336885(PQKBManifestationID)11241328(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336885(PQKBWorkID)10301847(PQKB)10399784(Au-PeEL)EBL476382(CaPaEBR)ebr10343288(CaONFJC)MIL922664(MiAaPQ)EBC476382(EXLCZ)99255000000000037020090803d2009 uy 0engur|n#---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierDress culture in late Victorian women's fiction[electronic resource] literacy, textiles, and activism /Christine Bayles KortschFarnham Ashgatec20091 recurso en línea (212 páginas)0-7546-6510-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismClothing and dress in literatureSewing in literatureMaterial culture in literatureMaterial cultureGreat BritainHistory19th centuryEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Clothing and dress in literature.Sewing in literature.Material culture in literature.Material cultureHistory823.8'09355-dc22823/.8093564Kortsch Christine Bayles1483224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780805103321Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction3701232UNINA