Empire of Diamonds : Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings /

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"The author of this volume is the longtime coeditor of the scholarly journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, and during her research of the highly successful book, Queen Victoria's Secrets, she became curious about the proliferation of print material on diamonds around the time of Victo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Munich, Adrienne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Charlottesville, Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
English fiction.
Diamonds in literature.
Diamonds.
Diamond industry and trade.
Crown jewels.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
crown jewels.
Joyaux de la couronne.
Diamants > Aspect social.
Diamants > Industrie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Diamants > Afrique du Sud.
Diamants > Inde.
Roman anglais > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Diamonds > Social aspects.
Diamond industry and trade > History > 19th century.
Diamonds > South Africa.
Diamonds > India.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
South Africa.
India.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Diamond Stories, Diamond Settings
  • India: Gems from the Gods. Conversions of the Last Maharajah of the Punjab and His Koh-i-noor Diamond
  • The Moonstone's Sacred Masculinity
  • Imitation India in Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Kim as Jewel and Crown
  • England: Diamond Metropole. Diamond Games for a Dead Man
  • Ivanhoe's Racialized Legacy to English Diamond Novels
  • South Africa: The Karoo Setting. True Stories on the Diamond Fields
  • The Scramble and the Scramblers
  • Domestic Romance Adventures on the Diamond Fields
  • Disavowed, Dispossessed Boers in Charlotte Mansfield and Olive Schreiner
  • Epilogue: America- Diamond Is for Everyone.

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