Portable property : Victorian culture on the move / John Plotz.
Plotz, John, 1967-
2008
PR878.M38 P58 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Portable property : Victorian culture on the move / John Plotz.
Author Plotz, John, 1967-
ISBN 9780691135168 (alk. paper)
0691135169 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Language English
Description xvii, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number PR878.M38 P58 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 823/.8093553
Summary "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-255) and index.
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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?

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