Portable Property : Victorian Culture on the Move /

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What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with rel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Plotz, John, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sentimentalism in literature.
Property in literature.
Personal belongings in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Expatriation in literature.
English fiction.
British > Foreign countries.
British in literature.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Britanniques > Pays etrangers.
Expatriation dans la litterature.
Britanniques dans la litterature.
Objets personnels dans la litterature.
Culture materielle dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : getting hold of portable property
  • Introduction : the global, the local, and the portable
  • Discreet jewels : Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value
  • The first strawberries in India : cultural portability abroad
  • Someone else's knowledge : race and portable culture in Daniel Deronda
  • Locating Lorna Doone : R.D. Blackmore, F.H. Burnett, and the limits of English regionalism
  • Going local : characters and environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex
  • Nowhere and everywhere : the end of portability in William Morris's romances
  • Conclusion : is portability portable?

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