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 โconditionโ of the agricultural labourer: wages, income, poverty and clothing
Rural discontent and trade unionism
Ruralโurban migration
Rural history and the history of working-class dress
2 Womenโs 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
โA womanโs place is in the homeโ: 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
Englandโs green and pleasant land: dress in agricultural landscape paintings
5 Photography and rural dress
โWork of artโ 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 โcounter-mythโ in images of rural England
Peter Henry Emerson and โtruth to natureโ
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, โfashionโ 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
