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Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction
1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
"Novel Craft presents what Schaffer terms the "craft paradigm" -- a set of beliefs about representation, production, consumption, value, and beauty that were crucial to mid-Victorian thought. She uncovers how handicrafts expressed anxieties about modernity and offered an alternative to the conventional financial, political, and aesthetic ideas of the era. Novel Craft reveals how this mindset evolves in four major Victorian novels: Gaskell's Cranford, Yonge's The Daisy Chain, Dickens's Our Mutual Friend, and Oliphant's Phoebe Junior. Each chapter centers on a scene of craft production that expresses the novel's ideals and also interrogates the novel itself as a form of craft, and each chapter highlights an influential craft genre: paper crafts, pressed flowers, knitting, and hair jewelry. The book closes with a coda on the current resurgent crafts movement of Etsy.com as a fresh version of a Victorian sensibility"--from publisher's site.
"Women's" work: the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft -- Ephemerality: the Cranford papers -- Preservation: the daisy and the chain -- Salvage: Betty as the mutual friend -- Connoisseurship: giving credit to Phoebe junior -- Postscript: the novelty of craft.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Novel Craft : Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, c2011