ISBN:
9781526118240
,
9781526118257
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 262 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
Series Statement:
Studies in imperialism
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lawrence, Dianne Genteel women
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lawrence, Dianne Genteel women
DDC:
305.309171241
Keywords:
Geschichte 1840-1910
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Colonialism & Imperialism / bicssc
;
Social & Cultural History / bicssc
;
HISTORY / Social History / bisach
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Colonialism & imperialism / Social & cultural history / thema
;
Women / Colonies / Great Britain / History
;
Engländerin
;
Sachkultur
;
Vornehmheit
;
Kolonie
;
Häuslichkeit
;
Großbritannien
;
Großbritannien
;
Kolonie
;
Engländerin
;
Vornehmheit
;
Häuslichkeit
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichte 1840-1910
Abstract:
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food
Abstract:
During the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, colonial expansion prompted increasing numbers of genteel women to establish their family homes in far-flung corners of the world. This work explores ways in which the women’s values, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food, were instrumental in constructing various forms of genteel society in alien settings. Lawrence examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India. In so doing, she offers a revised reading of the behaviour, motivations and practices of female elites, thereby calling into doubt the oft-stated notion that such women were a constraining element in new societies
Description / Table of Contents:
General Editor's introduction -- 1. Introduction: Gentility and the performance of Self -- 2. ‘Dress indicates mind’: the art and practice of appearance management -- 3. ‘The arrangement requires much taste and judgement’: creating critical space, the living room -- 4. ‘No-one can overestimate the pleasure of tending flowers’: tasteful gardening and growing attachment -- 5. ‘The guests being seated at the dinner table, the lady serves the soup’: food and household management -- 6. Conclusion: The work of migrancy -- Bibliography -- Index
DOI:
10.7765/9781526118240
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