LEADER 05135nam 2200865 a 450 001 9910459100903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15782-5 010 $a9786612157820 010 $a1-4008-2893-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400828937 035 $a(CKB)2670000000057535 035 $a(EBL)457882 035 $a(OCoLC)432429102 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000224611 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11191288 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000224611 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10207962 035 $a(PQKB)11159346 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000490152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12158049 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000490152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10462044 035 $a(PQKB)11781269 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457882 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36647 035 $a(DE-B1597)446681 035 $a(OCoLC)979581493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400828937 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312557 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215782 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000057535 100 $a20070810d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPortable property$b[electronic resource] $eVictorian culture on the move /$fJohn Plotz 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13516-9 311 $a0-691-14662-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-255) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList Of Illustrations -- $tPreface Getting Hold Of Portable Property -- $tIntroduction The Global, The Local, And The Portable -- $tChapter One. Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem of Sentimental Value -- $tChapter Two. The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad -- $tChapter Three. Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda -- $tChapter Four. Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the Limits of English Regionalism -- $tChapter Five. Going Local: Characters and Environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- $tChapter Six. Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability in William Morris's Romances -- $tConclusion Is Portability Portable? -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readily travel abroad as personifications of Britishness. At the same time a radically new relationship between cash value and sentimental associations arose in certain resonant mementoes--in teacups, rings, sprigs of heather, and handkerchiefs, but most of all in books. 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. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMaterial culture in literature 606 $aProperty in literature 606 $aPersonal belongings in literature 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 606 $aExpatriation in literature 606 $aBritish$zForeign countries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMaterial culture in literature. 615 0$aProperty in literature. 615 0$aPersonal belongings in literature. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 615 0$aExpatriation in literature. 615 0$aBritish 676 $a823/.8093553 700 $aPlotz$b John$f1967-$01055872 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459100903321 996 $aPortable property$92489651 997 $aUNINA