Emily Dickinson and the labor of clothing
By: Daneen Wardrop.
Series: [Becoming modern. Reading dress series]; Becoming modern
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham, N.H; Hanover [N.H.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781584657804
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Criticism and interpretation; Dickinson, Emily, -- 1830-1886 -- Knowledge -- Clothing; Clothing and dress in literature; Class consciousness in literature; Clothing trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: Daneen Wardrop's Emily Dickinson and the Labor of Clothing begins by identifying and using the dating tools of fashion to place the references to clothing in Dickinson's letters and poems, and to locate her social standing through examining her fashion choices in the iconic daguerreotype. In addition to detailing the poetics of fashion in Dickinson's work, the author argues that close examination of Dickinson and fashion cannot be separated from the changing ways that garments were produced during the nineteenth century, embracing issues of domestic labor, the Lowell textile mills, and the Amherst industry of the Hills Hat Factory located almost next door to Dickinson's Homestead. The recent retrieval of clothing from approximately thirty trunks found in the attic of the Evergreens house, which formerly belonged to Dickinson's brother and sister-in-law, further enhances this remarkable and original interdisciplinary work.-publisher description.
Notes: Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "time would fail me to enumerate my appearance"; title: Dickinson's fashion : "Won't you tell 'the public' that at present I wear a brown dress"; title: Dress the maker : "I finish Mama's sacque, all but the overcastting"; title: "Kelley Square" and "The crossing" : "but the whistle calls me; title: "; title: The body's body : tippet, basque, gaiters, pantalettes : "I asked him how you looked, and what you wore"; title: The bonnet of Dickinson's family : "Mother wants me to say that if you like Aunt L's bonnet"; title: Lace theory : "as laces just reveal the surge; title: "; title: Conclusion : "pierce me with a fashion".