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Clothed in meaning : literature, labor, and cotton in nineteenth-century America /

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"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 fie...

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Main Author: Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Series:Class, culture.
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and cricitism.
Working class authors > United States > History > 19th century.
Textile workers > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Cotton trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Clothing trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class women in literature.
Freedmen > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Freedmen > Social conditions.
Textile workers > Social conditions.
Working class authors.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

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