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000448530 1001_ $$aDaly, Suzanne.
000448530 24514 $$aThe empire inside :$$bIndian commodities in Victorian domestic novels /$$cSuzanne Daly.
000448530 260__ $$aAnn Arbor :$$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$$c2011.
000448530 300__ $$a167 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000448530 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000448530 5050_ $$aIntroduction: 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.
000448530 520__ $$aBy the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness.This book reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, the regularity with which Indian commodities appear bespeaks their burgeoning importance both ideologically and commercially. Such domestic details as the drinking of tea and the giving of shawls as gifts point us toward suppressed connections between the feminized realm of private life and the militarized realm of foreign commerce. Tracing  the history of Indian imports yields a record of the struggles for territory and political power that marked the coming-into-being of British India; reading the novels of the period for the ways in which they infuse meaning into these imports demonstrates how imperialism was written into the fabric of everyday life in nineteenth-century England. Situated at the intersection of Victorian studies, material cultural studies, gender studies, and British Empire studies, this book is written for academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in all of these fields.
000448530 650_0 $$aEnglish fiction$$y19th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000448530 650_0 $$aDomestic fiction, English$$xHistory and criticism.
000448530 650_0 $$aCommercial products in literature.
000448530 650_0 $$aMaterial culture in literature.
000448530 650_0 $$aMiddle class in literature.
000448530 650_0 $$aImperialism in literature.
000448530 650_0 $$aMaterial culture$$zGreat Britain$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000448530 650_0 $$aNational characteristics, English$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000448530 651_0 $$aIndia$$xIn literature.
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