LEADER 03773nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910822028103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a20120316d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBritish Colonial realism in Africa $einalienable objects, contested domains /$fDeborah Shapple Spillman 210 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York $cPalgrave Macmillan$dc2012 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 $aBritish$zAfrica$xIntellectual life 606 $aColonies in literature 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRealism in literature 607 $aAfrica$xIn literature 615 0$aBritish$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aColonies in literature. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRealism in literature. 676 $a820.9/12 686 $aSOC002010$aLIT004120$aLIT004010$2bisacsh 700 $aSpillman$b Deborah Shapple$01689951 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822028103321 996 $aBritish Colonial Realism in Africa$94065359 997 $aUNINA