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BL
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972752
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b727122
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Kortsch, Christine Bayles.
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Dress culture in late Victorian women's fiction : : literacy, textiles, and activism /\ Christine Bayles Kortsch.
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| Publication Statement
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Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 201 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0754694585
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: 1282382667
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: 9780754694588
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: 9781282382664
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0754665100
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9780754665106
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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English fiction-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
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English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.
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Sewing in literature.
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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English fiction-- Women authors.
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English fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Material culture in literature.
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Material culture.
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Sewing in literature.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.8093564
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PR116.K67 2009eb
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