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Portable property : Victorian culture on the move

Plotz, John, 1967-

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\"Portable Property examines how culture bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels - because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property - tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.\"--BOOK JACKET.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: English fiction 19th century History and criticism. / 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.
• ISBN: 9780691135168, 0691135169, 9780691146621

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR878.M38 P58 2008	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE