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

• Autore: Kortsch Christine Bayles
• Pubblicazione: Farnham, : Ashgate, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 recurso en línea (212 páginas)
• Disciplina: 823.8'09355-dc22; 823/.8093564
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction
• ISBN: 1-315-57811-5; 1-317-14800-2; 1-317-14799-5; 1-282-38266-7; 9786612382666; 0-7546-9458-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780805103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II