Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Official Index to the Times
Author:
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
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Category : Times (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Calendar
Author: University of Durham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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Portable Property
Author: John Plotz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691135169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
What 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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691135169
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
What 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.
The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
Author: Sampson Low
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
The Literary Landmarks of Devon & Cornwall
Author: Robert Thurston Hopkins
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Durham University Journal
Author: University of Durham
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
The English Catalogue of Books ...
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1804
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1804
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Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2088
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2088
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Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset
Author: Hugh Norris
Publisher:
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Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dorset (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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