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04249aam a2200505 i 4500 001 3DE9722A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220719010102 008 190909t20202020miu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0472131966 020 $a 9780472131969 035 $a (OCoLC)1117630227 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d IVU $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS217.W66 $b C66 2020 082 04 $a 810.9/35262409034 $2 23 100 1 $a Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, $d 1943- $e author. 245 10 $a Clothed in meaning : $b literature, labor, and cotton in nineteenth-century America / $c Sylvia Jenkins Cook. 246 30 $a Literature, labor, and cotton in nineteenth-century America 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 309 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Class : culture 520 $a "The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton field and producing cotton cloth in industrial mills faced a brutal reality of exploitation, servitude, and regimentation, yet they also had a profound desire to express their selfhood. Another transformative force of this era, the rise of literary publication and the radical extension of literacy to the working class, opened an avenue for them to do so. Cloth and clothing provide potent tropes not only for the physical but also for intellectual forms of self-expression. The rise of both the empire of cotton and the empire of fashion in the nineteenth century brought new opportunities for sartorial self-expression to millions of ordinary people who could now afford to dress in style and assert their physical presence. Millions of laborers toiling in cotton field and producing cotton cloth in industrial mills faced a brutal reality of exploitation, servitude, and regimentation, yet they also had a profound desire to express their selfhood. Another transformative force of this era, the rise of literary publication and the radical extension of literacy to the working class, opened an avenue for them to do so. Cloth and clothing provide potent tropes not only for the physical but also for intellectual forms of self-expression"-- $c Provided by publisher 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index. 505 00 $t The material of expression. $t A metaphor-making argument -- $t "Think what I have felt": William Grimes -- $t "Tricked out": dress and nakedness -- $t Strong spheres and elegant arts: the 'real presence' of slaves in Stowe's Dred -- $t The empire of fashion and the empire of cotton -- $t "The ebony pen of an ambitious lady": the coiffeuse and the modiste -- $t "Depth of thought and flights of eloquence": epics of cotton -- $g Conclusion. $t The material of expression. 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Working class authors $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Textile workers $z United States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Cotton trade $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Clothing trade $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Working class women in literature. 650 0 $a Freed persons $z United States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Working class women in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180590 650 7 $a Cotton trade. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00881080 650 7 $a Clothing trade. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00864754 650 7 $a Freed persons $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934004 650 7 $a Textile workers $x Social conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01148973 650 7 $a Working class authors $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180550 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Class, culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033151.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3DE9722A072811ED93C2E7E557ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search