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Empire of Diamonds : Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings /
"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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Charlottesville, Virginia] :
University of Virginia Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Munich, Adrienne, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Empire of Diamonds : |b Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings / |c Adrienne Munich. |
| 264 | 1 | |a [Charlottesville, Virginia] : |b University of Virginia Press, |c 2020. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2020. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (296 pages): |b illustrations (some color), maps | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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 Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897. The result is this book-a fascinating, accessible, and illustrated exploration of the various ways Victorian writers wrote about diamonds and the evolution of the cultural significance of these gems. The volume begins in 1849 when the famous Koh-i-noor diamond was transferred from the Punjab in India to Victoria, Queen of the British Empire. The political significance was obvious. Diamonds were a symbol of political power--only for the very rich and powerful. But, with Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, the idea of owning a diamond began to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Mining of diamonds in India, South Africa, and other British colonies grew, with all the attendant commerce, conflicts, prejudices, and exploitations of the people of color who mined the diamonds and the stereotyping of the Dutch Jews who cut and sold them. By examining the literature, journalism, advertisements, and other printed sources, Munich presents a sweeping, vivid, and dazzling account of the source and development of our ongoing love affair with diamonds"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a English fiction. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Diamonds in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00892607 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Diamonds. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00892595 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Diamond industry and trade. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00892557 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Crown jewels. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00884294 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a crown jewels. |2 aat | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Joyaux de la couronne. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Diamants |x Aspect social. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Diamants |x Industrie |x Histoire |y 19e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Diamants |z Afrique du Sud. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Diamants |z Inde. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Roman anglais |y 19e siecle |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Crown jewels. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Diamonds |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Diamond industry and trade |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Diamonds |z South Africa. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Diamonds |z India. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English fiction |y 19th century |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Diamonds in literature. | |
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| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
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