Political and sartorial styles: Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century

Front Matter\nContents\nList of plates\nList of figures\nList of contributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: Jim Crow’s tuxedo\nPart I: Between metaphor and materiality\nSmock frock farmer or smock frock radical? Political interpretations of one garment in nineteenth-century England\nA delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentlemen clients\nSecond-hand clothes, second-hand politics: sartorial exchange, social reform, and the work of the novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon\nPart II: Reading appearances\n‘If you want to get ahead, get a hat’: manliness, power, and politics via the top hat\nDressing for disinterestedness: Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, and John Morley\nSartorial subversion and the House of Commons: political identities, meanings, and the responses to MPs’ dress, c. 1850–1914\nDressing for the vote in Ford Madox Brown’s Work\nPart III: Global connections and entanglements\nSpectacles of grandeur and fabrics for the brave: the West India Regiments’ dress until 1900\n‘The philosophy of clothes’: politics and dress in Melbourne Punch, 1860s–1870s\nGertrude Bell, femme impériale\nIndex\nPlates