What a Rag Rug Means
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2391367 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn Steedman (0000-0001-8175-1161, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 259-281 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Material Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/135918359800300301 |
| OpenAlex | W2020786135 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
A variety of approaches to the material object - primarily, psycho-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 indus trial 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
Archaeology · Class (philosophy · Craft · Economics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Working class · Classics · Computer Science · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2014 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |