03253oam 2200445I 450 991079492670332120200619092043.09781350985759 : (ebk : Bloomsbury)10.5040/9781350985759(MiAaPQ)EBC5343535(OCoLC)1162671402(UkLoBP)BP0065950526(EXLCZ)99434000000026417320161003i20192018 uy 0engurcnu|||uuuuutxtrdacontentstirdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierClothing and landscape in Victorian England[electronic resource] working-class dress and rural life /Rachel WorthLondon, England :I.B.Tauris,2018.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,2019.x, 212p. ;illIncludes bibliographical references and index.List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Change and Transition in Victorian England : The rural context -- Chapter 2. Women's Work, Education and the Domesticity of Dress : Surveying and documenting the rural (I) -- Chapter 3. Clothing and its Acquisition in a Changing Society : Surveying and documenting the rural (II) -- Chapter 4. Painting Nostalgia : Dress and the vision of a vanishing rural world -- Chapter 5. Photography and Rural Dress : 'Work of art' or documentary realism? -- Chapter 6. Clothing and the 'Counter-Myth' in Images of Rural England -- Chapter 7. Thomas Hardy : Tradition, fashion and the approach of modernity -- Chapter 8. Rural Working-Class Dress : Survival, representation and change -- Conclusion : Clothing and landscape -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Plates."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 throws 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, with black & white and colour illustrations, both 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."--Provided by publisher.Working-class dress and rural lifeClothing and dressEnglandHistory19th centuryWorking classClothingEnglandHistory19th centuryHistory of fashionClothing and dressHistoryWorking classClothingHistory391/.024Worth Rachel1057706UkLoBPUkLoBP9910794926703321Clothing and landscape in Victorian England3806311UNINA