@article{448530,
      recid = {448530},
      author = {Daly, Suzanne.},
      title = {The empire inside : Indian commodities in Victorian  domestic novels /},
      publisher = {University of Michigan Press,},
      address = {Ann Arbor :},
      pages = {167 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {By 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448530},
}