Portable property : Victorian culture on the move

Portable property : Victorian culture on the move / John Plotz.

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 rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plotz, John, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Material culture in literature.
Property in literature.
Personal belongings in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Expatriation in literature.
British > Foreign countries.
British in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
British in literature
British > Foreign countries
English fiction
Expatriation in literature
Material culture in literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
Personal belongings in literature
Property in literature
Sentimentalism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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