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Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings, Adrienne Munich


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Автор: Adrienne Munich
Название:  Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings
ISBN: 9780813944005
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 0813944007
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 296
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 10 colour illustrations, 13 black & white illustrations
Размер: 231 x 165 x 20
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism,Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Victorian gems in imperial settings
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Описание: In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victorias outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds.Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empires prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the eras most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomons Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination.Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence crosses the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.
Дополнительное описание: Social and cultural history|Literature: history and criticism|Literary companions, book reviews and guides



Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts

Автор: Mancoff Debra N., Trela D. J.
Название: Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and Its Contexts
ISBN: 1138864269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138864269
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India

Автор: ?adaoin Agnew
Название: Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India
ISBN: 3319814508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319814506
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj.

Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty

Автор: Hensley Nathan K.
Название: Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty
ISBN: 019879245X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198792451
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this far-reaching and provocative study, Nathan K. Hensley shows how the modern state`s anguished relationship to violence pushed literary writers of the Victorian era to expand the capacities of literary form. He explores the works of some of the era`s most astute thinkers, including George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

Автор: Franey
Название: Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
ISBN: 1403905088 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403905086
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature`s significance in Victorian life, this study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travellers` descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa.

Imperial Russia`s Muslims : Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788–1914

Автор: Mustafa Tuna
Название: Imperial Russia`s Muslims : Islam, Empire and European Modernity, 1788–1914
ISBN: 1108447791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108447799
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Investigates the entangled transformations of Russia`s Muslim communities from the late eighteenth century through to the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkish sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the transformation of Imperial Russia`s oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims.

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Автор: U. Mukherjee
Название: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
ISBN: 1349433578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349433575
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.

Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910

Автор: E. Spencer Wellhofer
Название: Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910
ISBN: 1349246905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349246908
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Описание: Late Victorian Britain witnessed three challenges to its eighteenth-century Republican Ideal: democracy, capitalism and ethnic nationalism. Calling upon the languages and debates of the period, the book examines contending images of the social order with new data analytic techniques and information.

Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination

Автор: Burgess Douglas R. Jr.
Название: Engines of Empire: Steamships and the Victorian Imagination
ISBN: 0804798060 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804798068
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously dismantled in 1889.

Steamships like the Great Eastern occupied a singular place in the Victorian mind. Crossing oceans, ferrying tourists and troops alike, they became emblems of nationalism, modernity, and humankind's triumph over the cruel elements. Throughout the nineteenth century, the spectacle of a ship's launch was one of the most recognizable symbols of British social and technological progress. Yet this celebration of the power of the empire masked overconfidence and an almost religious veneration of technology. Equating steam with civilization had catastrophic consequences for subjugated peoples around the world.

Engines of Empire tells the story of the complex relationship between Victorians and their wondrous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jules Verne as well as ordinary spectators, tourists, and imperial administrators as they crossed oceans bound for the colonies. Rich with anecdotes and wry humor, it is a fascinating glimpse into a world where an empire felt powerful and anything seemed possible—if there was an engine behind it.

Victorian Empire and Britain`s Maritime World, 1837-1901

Автор: Taylor Miles
Название: Victorian Empire and Britain`s Maritime World, 1837-1901
ISBN: 0230303889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230303881
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain`s global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.

Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire

Автор: Mukherjee Upamanyu Pablo
Название: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
ISBN: 1137001127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137001122
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience.

Geography and the literary imagination in victorian fictions of empire

Автор: Fernandez, Jean
Название: Geography and the literary imagination in victorian fictions of empire
ISBN: 036740950X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367409500
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction`s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place.

Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys` adventure novel

Автор: Elleray, Michelle
Название: Victorian coral islands of empire, mission, and the boys` adventure novel
ISBN: 0367235501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367235505
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms from 1840-1880, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of the adventure novel and British missionary efforts.


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