TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The empire inside :Indian commodities in Victorian domestic novels /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - Ann Arbor :
AU  - Daly, Suzanne.
CN  - PR878.M38
CN  - PR878.M38
PB  - University of Michigan Press,
PP  - Ann Arbor :
PY  - 2011.
ID  - 448530
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction, English
KW  - Commercial products in literature.
KW  - Material culture in literature.
KW  - Middle class in literature.
KW  - Imperialism in literature.
KW  - Material culture
KW  - National characteristics, English
SN  - 9780472071340 (alk. paper)
SN  - 0472071343 (alk. paper)
SN  - 9780472051342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
SN  - 0472051342 (pbk. : alk. paper)
TI  - The empire inside :Indian commodities in Victorian domestic novels /
ER  -