02575nam a22002417a 4500999001700000005001700017008004100034020001800075028009500093082001700188100001700205245008900222260005600311300002400367365000900391505029300400520138700693650001502080655006202095700001702157942000902174952015002183 c56564d5656420201215115903.0200704b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d a9780472051342 a Technical Bureau Private Limitedb;E-261,Shastri Nagar,Delhi-110052c;TB2716d;03/06/2020 a823.8093 DAL aSuzanne Daly aThe empire inside b: Indian commodities in Victorian domestic novelsc/Suzanne Daly aAnn Arbor b: University of Michigan Pressc, 2011. a167 pages c; 24 cm b3146 a Introduction: colonial commodities and the naturalization of empire -- The private life of things: Kashmir shawls -- Mechanization, free trade, and imperialism: cotton -- Plunder as property: diamonds -- Tea and the mode of (literary) production -- Imperial imports at the fin de siecle. aBy the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness. This book reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, the regularity with which Indian commodities appear bespeaks their burgeoning importance both ideologically and commercially. Such domestic details as the drinking of tea and the giving of shawls as gifts point us toward suppressed connections between the feminized realm of private life and the militarized realm of foreign commerce. Tracing the history of Indian imports yields a record of the struggles for territory and political power that marked the coming-into-being of British India; reading the novels of the period for the ways in which they infuse meaning into these imports demonstrates how imperialism was written into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-century England. Situated at the intersection of Victorian studies, material cultural studies, gender studies, and British Empire studies, this book is written for academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in all of these fields. aliterature aEnglish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. aSuzanne Daly cBOOK 00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2020-07-04eTechnical Bureau Private Limitedg3146.00l0o823.8093 DALp27548r2020-07-04 00:00:00w2020-07-04yBOOK