Portable Property
Victorian Culture on the Move
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2008
288 pages
978-1-4008-2893-7 (ISBN)
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John Plotz is associate professor of Victorian literature at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics.
Content
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
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
