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100 1 a| Hind, Heather,e| author.;

245 10 a| Hairwork in Victorian literature and culture :b| matter, form and craft /c| Heather Hind.;

264 1 a| Cham, Switzerland :b| Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland,c| [2025];

300 a| xvi, 256 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 22 cm.;

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490 1 a| Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork - the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair - in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and commercialised in the mid-nineteenth century, before swiftly declining in popularity. Yet, in the Victorian imagination, hairwork held a peculiar capacity to emerge from and capture moments of tension: it was made to mark relationships as they were redefined or consolidated; to process transitions and articulate hope for the future; and to express identities as they were questioned and explored. This book reconstructs and interprets the role of hairwork in revealing and negotiating such desires and anxieties by studying its historical trajectory, surviving artefacts, and practices alongside its literary representations in works by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Margaret Oliphant. It shows how the combination of hairwork's matter, form, and craft - the material of hair, the designs and uses of hairwork, and the processes of its making - expose the complexities and tensions within identity, affective relationships, and social relations and thus contributed to its unique place in Victorian culture." --c| Provided by publisher.;

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Hairwork in Victorian literature and culture : matter, form and craft / Heather Hind.

Author/creator	Hind, Heather author.
Format	Book
Publication	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	xvi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects	English literature--19th century. --History and cricitism. Hairstyles--Social aspects. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Hairwork--Social aspects. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century. Hairwork--In literature. Popular culture--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.

Series	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Abstract	"This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork - the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair - in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and commercialised in the mid-nineteenth century, before swiftly declining in popularity. Yet, in the Victorian imagination, hairwork held a peculiar capacity to emerge from and capture moments of tension: it was made to mark relationships as they were redefined or consolidated; to process transitions and articulate hope for the future; and to express identities as they were questioned and explored. This book reconstructs and interprets the role of hairwork in revealing and negotiating such desires and anxieties by studying its historical trajectory, surviving artefacts, and practices alongside its literary representations in works by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Margaret Oliphant. It shows how the combination of hairwork's matter, form, and craft - the material of hair, the designs and uses of hairwork, and the processes of its making - expose the complexities and tensions within identity, affective relationships, and social relations and thus contributed to its unique place in Victorian culture." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	ebook version : 9783031787799
ISBN	9783031787782
ISBN	3031787781 (hardcover)
ISBN	electronic book

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