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Index
Cover
Author Bio
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
A Note on Chronology
1 Change and transition in Victorian EnglandThe 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 dressSurveying 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 societySurveying 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 nostalgiaDress 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 HardyTradition, fashion and the approach of modernity
Clothing in fiction
A discourse of change
Rural dress, ‘fashion’ and the urban
8 Rural working-class dressSurvival, 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
Notes
Bibliography
Plate Section
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