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Steedman, Carolyn. (1998) What a rag rug means. Journal of Material Culture, Vol.3 (No.3). pp. 259-281. ISSN 1359-1835
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/135918359800300301
Abstract
A variety of approaches to the material object - primarily, psyche-analytic approaches - are employed, in order to give an account of historians' relationship to the past. In particular, the history of one domestic craft, rag rug making, is explored in its relation to the development of the textile industries and paper manufacture, from the end of the 18th century onwards. The strange absence of the rag rug from Elizabeth Gaskell's industrial novel Mary Barton (1848) is scrutinized, in order to further explore the representation of working-class life, in literature and history: by social investigators and novelists in the past, and by modern historians. Questions are then raised about the uses to which these representations and accounts have been put, in a modern class society.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Working class -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century, Working class -- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 19th century, Domestic space -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Rag rugs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Textile industry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Material culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Material Culture |
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1359-1835 |
| Date: | November 1998 |
| Volume: | Vol.3 |
| Number: | No.3 |
| Number of Pages: | 23 |
| Page Range: | pp. 259-281 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1177/135918359800300301 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Version or Related Resource: | This article had its origins in a paper given at the Reading the Nineteenth Century Domestic Space Conference, St Alfred’s College, Winchester, April 1996. |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/15187 |
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