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The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain
Coordinators: Myers Janet C., McMahon Deirdre H.
Language: EnglishSubjects for The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial...:
Keywords
Turkish Embassy Letters Montagu; Domestic Advice Literature; kitchen; Victorian Popular Literature; apparatus; Young Man; Deirdre H; McMahon; Monkey Brand Soap; Jo Guldi; Satichaura Ghat; Clive Edwards; Kitchen Apparatus; Mary Jeanette Moran; Alexis Soyer; Victoria Kelley; East Indies; Sumangala Bhattacharya; British House Furnishings; Jason Howard Mezey; Lady Montagu; Bradley Deane; VC; Kellie Holzer; Monkey’s Paw; Bastable Family; Indian Uncle; Domestic Cookbooks; Margaret Ponsonby; Mr White; Bird’s Eye; Treasure Seekers; Modern Housewife; Oriental Domesticity; Sweet Oil; Tea Pot; Teapot
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2015
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Part 1: Mapping Domestic Territories 1. The Tangible Shape of the Nation: The State, the Cheap Printed Map, and the Manufacture of British Identit, 1784 - 1855. 2. The Material Stability: Conforming to Type in British House Furnishings, 1860-1910. 3. The Material Lessons of Children's Literature: Unearthing Class Standards in E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers. Part 2: Hearth, Home, and Housekeeping 4. Housekeeping: Shine, Polish, Gloss and Glaze as Surface Strategies in the Domestic Interior. 5. Kitchen Magic: Reforming the Victorian Kitchen with Alexis Soyer. 6. Tea Gender and Middle-Class Taste. Part 3: Imperial Possessions, Community Culture and Colonial Return 7. "A cross, a lion and a scroll or two": The Victorial Cross and the Substance of British Identity. 8. Monkeys in the House: Commodities and Competing Fetishisms in Late Victorian Popular Culture. 9. Lady Montagu's Smokers' Pastils and The Graphoc Advertising the Harem in the Home.
Deirdre H. McMahon is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University, USA, and Janet C. Myers is Professor of English at Elon University, USA.