Plotz Portable Property

Victorian Culture on the Move
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2893-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Plotz, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations xi

Preface: Getting Hold of Portable Property xiii

INTRODUCTION: The Global, the Local, and the Portable 1

CHAPTER ONE: Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value 24

CHAPTER TWO: The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad 45

CHAPTER THREE: Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda 72

CHAPTER FOUR: Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism 93

CHAPTER FIVE: Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex 122

CHAPTER SIX: Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances 144

CONCLUSION: Is Portability Portable? 170

Notes 183

Bibliography 235

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

John Plotz is associate professor of Victorian literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics.