03144nam 22004815 450 991025535980332120200930210054.03-319-33195-710.1007/978-3-319-33195-9(CKB)3710000001400846(DE-He213)978-3-319-33195-9(MiAaPQ)EBC4874793(EXLCZ)99371000000140084620170609d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImperial Women Writers in Victorian India Representing Colonial Life, 1850-1910 /by Éadaoin Agnew1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (VII, 203 p.) Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,2634-64943-319-33194-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Chapter 1: There’s No Place like Home: Homes and Gardens in Victorian India -- Chapter 2: Good Housekeeping: Household Management and Domestic Organisation -- Chapter 3: Family Ties: Imperial Women as Wives and Mothers -- Chapter 4: Ladies of Leisure: Pastimes, Hobbies and Daily Routines -- Chapter 5: Hot Gossip: Romance and Courtship in Victorian India -- Chapter 6: High Society: Hill Stations and Social Occasions -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- .This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, romance and courtship and their busy social lives. However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj. In this way, they subverted the constraints of Victorian gender discourses and were part of a growing proto-feminism.Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,2634-6494Literature, Modern—19th centuryOriental literatureNineteenth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000Asian Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/831000Literature, Modern—19th century.Oriental literature.Nineteenth-Century Literature.Asian Literature.809.034Agnew Éadaoinauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut963794BOOK9910255359803321Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India2185718UNINA