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028			_a Technical Bureau Private Limited _b;E-261,Shastri Nagar,Delhi-110052 _c;TB2716 _d;03/06/2020
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100			_aSuzanne Daly
245			_aThe empire inside _b: Indian commodities in Victorian domestic novels _c/Suzanne Daly
260			_aAnn Arbor _b: University of Michigan Press _c, 2011.
300			_a167 pages _c; 24 cm
365			_b3146
505			_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.
520			_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.
650			_aliterature
655			_aEnglish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
700			_aSuzanne Daly
942			_cBOOK