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

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