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The objects and textures of everyday life in imperial Britain
Title
The objects and textures of everyday life in imperial Britain / edited by Deirdre H. McMahon, Janet C. Myers.
ISBN
9781409455189
1409455181
9781409455196
9781472403582
Publication
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Publishing, [2016]
Physical Description
x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions--from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home décor--the essays in this collection analyze the idiosyncratic and ideological contours of materiality, thus demonstrating how the use of nitty-gritty elements influenced the ways that tenets of domesticity were established as central to individual happiness, national security, and imperial hegemony"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 22, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Material possessions : the objects and textures of everyday life in imperial Britain / Deirdre H. McMahon with Janet C. Myers
Part I. Mapping domestic territories
The tangible shape of the nation : the state, the cheap printed map, and the manufacture of British identity, 1784-1855 / Jo Guldi
Establishing stability : conforming to type in British house furnishings, 1860-1910 / Clive Edwards
The material lessons of children's literature : unearthing class standards in E. Nesbit's The story of the treasure seekers / Mary Jeanette Moran
Part II. Hearth, home, and housekeeping
Housekeeping : shine, polish, gloss and glaze as surface strategies in the domestic interior / Victoria Kelley
Kitchen magic : reforming the Victorian kitchen with Alexis Soyer / Sumangala Bhattacharya
Tea, gender and middle-class taste / Deirdre H. McMahon
Part III. Imperial possessions, commodity culture, and colonial return
"A cross, a lion, and a scroll or two" : the Victoria Cross and the substance of British imperial identity / Jason Howard Mezey
Monkeys in the house : commodities and competing fetishisms in late Victorian popular culture / Bradley Deane
Lady Montagu's smokers' pastils and the graphic : advertising the harem in the home / Kellie Holzer.
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