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Victorian traffic : identity, exchange, performance /

Organised around the themes Home and Abroad, Performative Traffic, and Image, Circulation, Mobility, Victorian Traffic: Identity, Performance, Exchange variously addresses the cultural dimensions of traffic in the long Victorian period: cross-cultural experience; colonial and racial imaginaries; eve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Thomas, Sue, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Table of contents; list of images; acknowledgments; introduction; part i; gifts of patchwork and visits to whitehall; "i cannot see one without thinking of the other"; authorising the self; exoticism in anglo-indian women's fiction, 1880-1920; "flashed from wire to wire, through the continents of the old and new world"; the traffic in gossip; anglo-australians on fleet street, 1892-1905; frieda cassin's with silent tread and the spectre of leprosy in antigua and britain, 1889-91; part ii; agents or objects?; pauline johnson-tekahionwake; oscar's wild(e) year in america.
  • Female pleasure and muscular arms in touring trapeze actspart iii; traffic in pictures; transporting genres; the traffic of identity; little man walking; "the great and wonderful labyrinth"; spectral traffic; bibliography; contributors; index.