The Significance of Fabrics in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell: Material Evidence

by Amanda Ford

Elizabeth Gaskell's writings abound in references to a cultural materiality encompassing different types of fabric, stuffs, calicoes, chintzes and fine-point lace. These are not merely the motifs of the Realist genre but reveal a complex polysemy. Utilizing a metonymic examination of these tropes, this volume exposes the dramatic structural and socio-economic upheaval generated by industrialization, urbanization and the widening sphere of empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032341637
• ISBN13: 9781032341637
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 202 Pages