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Portable property : Victorian culture on the move / John Plotz.
Van Pelt Library PR878.M38 P58 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plotz, John, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Material culture in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Personal belongings in literature.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- National characteristics, British, in literature.
- Expatriation in literature.
- British--Foreign countries.
- British.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value 24
- Chapter 2 The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad 45
- Chapter 3 Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda 72
- Chapter 4 Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism 93
- Chapter 5 Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex 122
- Chapter 6 Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances 144
- Is Porta08bility Portable? 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691135168
- 0691135169
- OCLC:
- 166255093
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