Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles, and ActivismAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - 201 pages In her immensely readable and richly documented book, 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. |
Table des matières
The Needle Dipped in Blood | 23 |
The Victorian Corset | 55 |
Haunting the Dress Shop | 105 |
New Women Sew a New World | 141 |
Ode to a Dishrag | 179 |
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