Novel craft : Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction /

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Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the roya...

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1. Verfasser:
Schaffer, Talia
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Domestic handicraft was an extraordinarily popular leisure activity in Victorian Britain, especially amongst middle-class women. Craftswomen pasted shells onto boxes, stitched fish scales onto silk, scorched patterns into wood, cast flower petals out of wax, and made needlework portraits of the royal spaniels. Yet despite its ubiquity, little has been written about this curious hobby. Providing a much-needed history of this under-studied phenomenon, Talia Schaffer demonstrates the importance of domestic handicraft in Victorian literature and culture. Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms.
Umfang:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-025281-2
1-283-23218-9
9786613232182
0-19-978105-2
Schlagworte:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 19th century.
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