Portable property : Victorian culture on the move /
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...
| Основен автор: | Plotz, John, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=286671 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Portable property. |
Съдържание:
- Preface : getting hold of portable property
- Introduction : the global, the local, and the portable
- Discreet jewels : Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value
- The first strawberries in India : cultural portability abroad
- Someone else's knowledge : race and portable culture in Daniel Deronda
- Locating Lorna Doone : R.D. Blackmore, F.H. Burnett, and the limits of English regionalism
- Going local : characters and environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex
- Nowhere and everywhere : the end of portability in William Morris's romances
- Conclusion : is portability portable?