Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction : literacy, textiles, and activism /
"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. Even as the Education Acts of 1870, 1880, and 1891 extended the privilege of print literacy to greater numbers of the populace...
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| Language: | English |
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Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2009]
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| ISBN: | 9780754665106 (hardback : alk. paper) 0754665100 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780754694588 (e-book) 0754694585 (e-book) |
Table of Contents:
- Writing in fabric, working in print
- The needle dipped in blood
- Fashioning women : the Victorian corset
- Art's labor lost : haunting the dress shop
- Beautiful revolution : new women sew a new world.