Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home décor”the essays in this collection analyze the idiosyncratic and ideological contours of materiality.

Product details

• Authors: Janet C. Mcmahon Myers
• Assisted by: Deirdre H. McMahon (Editor), Janet C. Myers (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367882259
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88225-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, The arts: general issues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Medicine, History of Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism, Literature: history and criticism, The arts: general topics