Clothing and landscape in Victorian England : working-class dress and rural life

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Cover Author bio Endorsement Title page Copyright information Table of contents Illustrations Black- and- White Illustrations Colour Plates Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on Chronology 1 Change and transition in Victorian England The rural context A southern landscape of Englishness The decline of agriculture The ‘condition’ of the agricultural labourer: wages, income, poverty and clothing Rural discontent and trade unionism Rural–urban migration Rural history and the history of working-class dress 2 Women’s work, education and the domesticity of dress Surveying and documenting the rural (I) The parliamentary commissions of enquiry of 1843 and 1867 The Daily News survey of 1891 ‘A woman’s place is in the home’: the conflicting demands of field work, education and ideals of domesticity 3 Clothing and its acquisition in a changing society Surveying and documenting the rural (II) Poverty and the scarcity of clothing Poor relief, charity and clothing clubs Finding a voice: working-class perceptions of respectability 4 Painting nostalgia Dress and the vision of a vanishing rural world The development of agricultural landscape painting England’s green and pleasant land: dress in agricultural landscape paintings 5 Photography and rural dress ‘Work of art’ or documentary realism? The photograph as a work of art and the representation of landscape Photography, rural dress and the picturesque 6 Clothing and the ‘counter-myth’ in images of rural England Peter Henry Emerson and ‘truth to nature’ The influence of realism and naturalism on the representation of the rural labourer Dress in the work of George Clausen 7 Thomas Hardy Tradition, fashion and the approach of modernity Clothing in fiction A discourse of change Rural dress, ‘fashion’ and the urban 8 Rural working-class dress Survival, representation and change Obstacles to survival Representations of rural working-class dress and museum collections Male working-class clothing Female working-class clothing Conclusion Clothing and landscape Bibliography Index Plates