LEADER 04641nam 22008535 450 001 9910791955003321 005 20180829122714.0 010 $a1-280-68023-7 010 $a9786613657169 010 $a0-230-37801-3 024 7 $a10.1057/9780230378018 035 $a(CKB)2560000000080486 035 $a(EBL)931742 035 $a(OCoLC)795120161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000667771 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11391351 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667771 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10684562 035 $a(PQKB)11761707 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-230-37801-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC931742 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000080486 100 $a20151201d2012 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritish Colonial Realism in Africa$b[electronic resource] $eInalienable Objects, Contested Domains /$fby Deborah Shapple Spillman 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (258 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-349-35093-1 311 $a0-230-37800-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Colonial Realism; 1 Taking Objects for Origins: Victorian Ethnography and Conrad's Heart of Darkness; 1 Ethnographic Doubling; 2 Of Trifles and Trade: Conrad's Ethnography of Colonialism; 3 Authenticity on the Market, an Afterword; 2 The Uncanny Object Lessons of Mary Kingsley and Edward Blyden; 1 If Objects Could Speak, ""many a wild story the handles of your table knives could tell""; 2 Out of England: Objects and Others; 3 Not ""an object in the midst of other objects"" 327 $a3 Realism and Realia in Colonial Southern Africa1 Collecting Cape Colony Life; 2 Specimens and Curiosities in Carey-Hobson's The Farm in the Karoo; 3 Outside the Realist Collection: Reckless Generosity and Other Notions of Expenditure; 4 Curses and Gifts in Anna Howarth's Karoo Novels; 4 Artful Tales and Indigenous Arts in Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm; 1 A Portrait of the Artist as a Colonial South African; 2 Schreiner's Grotesque Realism; 3 Histories and ""Bushman"" Painters; Coda; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWhat role do objects play in realist narratives as they move between societies and their different systems of value as commodities, as charms, as gifts, as trophies, or as curses? This book explores how the struggle to represent objects in British colonial realism corresponded with historical struggles over the material world and its significance. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture 606 $aLiterature, Modern-19th century 606 $aLiterature-Philosophy 606 $aBritish literature 606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aEthnology 606 $aCulture-Study and teaching 606 $aNineteenth-Century Literature$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/821000 606 $aLiterary Theory$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/812000 606 $aBritish and Irish Literature$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/833000 606 $aAfrican Literature$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/829000 606 $aCultural Anthropology$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411060 606 $aCultural Theory$3http://scigraph.springernature.com/things/product-market-codes/411130 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern-19th century. 615 0$aLiterature-Philosophy. 615 0$aBritish literature. 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aEthnology. 615 0$aCulture-Study and teaching. 615 14$aNineteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aBritish and Irish Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aCultural Anthropology. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 676 $a820.9/12 676 $a820.9008 676 $a820.912 686 $aSOC002010$aLIT004120$aLIT004010$2bisacsh 700 $aSpillman$b Deborah Shapple$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01478859 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791955003321 996 $aBritish Colonial Realism in Africa$93694701 997 $aUNINA