Portable Property : : Victorian Culture on the Move / / John Plotz.
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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Plotz, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Portable Property : Victorian Culture on the Move / John Plotz. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (288 p.) : 10 halftones. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface Getting Hold Of Portable Property -- Introduction The Global, The Local, And The Portable -- Chapter One. Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value -- Chapter Two. The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad -- Chapter Three. Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Four. Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism -- Chapter Five. Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- Chapter Six. Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances -- Conclusion Is Portability Portable? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readily travel abroad as personifications of Britishness. At the same time a radically new relationship between cash value and sentimental associations arose in certain resonant mementoes--in teacups, rings, sprigs of heather, and handkerchiefs, but most of all in books. Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) British Foreign countries. English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Expatriation in literature. Material culture in literature. National characteristics, British, in literature. Personal belongings in literature. Property in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691146621 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400828937 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400828937 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400828937.jpg |
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Plotz, John, Plotz, John, Portable Property : Victorian Culture on the Move / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface Getting Hold Of Portable Property -- Introduction The Global, The Local, And The Portable -- Chapter One. Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value -- Chapter Two. The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad -- Chapter Three. Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Four. Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism -- Chapter Five. Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- Chapter Six. Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances -- Conclusion Is Portability Portable? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Preface Getting Hold Of Portable Property -- Introduction The Global, The Local, And The Portable -- Chapter One. Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value -- Chapter Two. The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad -- Chapter Three. Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda -- Chapter Four. Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism -- Chapter Five. Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- Chapter Six. Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances -- Conclusion Is Portability Portable? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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