Political and Sartorial Styles

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

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 -- .