Morrison / Unknown Political and sartorial styles

Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5308-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture

This book starts with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style. It offers an examination of how dress formed political identities and communicated social and political messages during the period when imperial and colonial empires assumed their modern form.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Morrison, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Jim Crow’s tuxedo – Kevin A. Morrison

Part I: Between metaphor and materiality
1 Smock frock farmer or smock frock radical? Political interpretations of one garment in nineteenth-century England – Alison Toplis
2 A delicate balance of power: Victorian tailors and their gentleman clients – Chris Kent
3 Second-hand clothes, second-hand politics: sartorial exchange, social reform, and the work of the novel in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon –Peter Katz

Part II: Reading appearances
4 ‘If you want to get ahead, get a hat’: manliness, power, and politics via the top hat – Ariel Beaujot
5 Dressing for disinterestedness: Herbert Spencer, John Stuart Mill, and John Morley – Kevin A. Morrison
6 Sartorial subversion and the House of Commons: political identities, meanings and the responses to MPs’ dress, c. 1850–1914 – Marcus Morris
7 Dressing for the vote in Ford Madox Brown’s Work– Janice Carlisle

Part III: Global connections and entanglements
8 Spectacles of grandeur and fabrics for the brave: West India regiments’ dress through 1900 – Steeve O. Buckridge
9 ‘The philosophy of clothes’: politics and dress in Melbourne Punch, 1860s–70s – Shu-chuan Yan
10 Gertrude Bell, femme impériale – Elizabeth Bishop

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin A. Morrison is Provincial Chair Professor, University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University