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Portable Property : : Victorian Culture on the Move / / John Plotz.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Plotz, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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