ISBN:
9781409455189
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 237 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
DDC:
941.081
Keywords:
Material culture History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Home History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Personal belongings History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
House furnishings History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Commercial products History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Imperialism Social aspects
;
History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Group identity History
;
19th century
;
Great Britain
;
Material culture History 19th century
;
Home History 19th century
;
Personal belongings History 19th century
;
House furnishings History 19th century
;
Commercial products History 19th century
;
Imperialism Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
National security Social aspects 19th century
;
History
;
Group identity History 19th century
;
Great Britain Social life and customs
;
19th century
;
Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Großbritannien
;
Alltag
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichte 1815-1914
Abstract:
"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, thus demonstrating how the use of nitty-gritty elements influenced the ways that tenets of domesticity were established as central to individual happiness, national security, and imperial hegemony"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction: Material possessions : the objects and textures of everyday life in imperial Britain / Deirdre H. McMahon with Janet C. Myers -- Part I. Mapping domestic territories -- The tangible shape of the nation : the state, the cheap printed map, and the manufacture of British identity, 1784-1855 / Jo Guldi -- Establishing stability : conforming to type in house furnishings, 1860-1910 / Clive Edwards -- The material lessons of children's literature : unearthing class standards in E. Nesbit's The story of the treasure seekers / Mary Jeanette Moran -- Part II. Hearth, home, and housekeeping -- Housekeeping : shine, polish, gloss and glaze as surface strategies in the domestic interior / Victoria Kelley -- Kitchen magic : reforming the Victorian kitchen with Alexis Soyer / Sumangala Bhattacharya -- Tea, gender and middle-class taste / Deirdre H. McMahon -- Part III. Imperial possessions, commodity culture, and colonial return -- "A cross, a lion, and a scroll or two" : the Victoria Cross and the substance of British imperial identity / Jason Howard Mezey -- Monkeys in the house : commodities and competing fetishisms in late Victorian popular culture / Bradley Deane -- Lady Montagu's smokers' pastils and the graphic : advertising the harem in the home / Kellie Holzer
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