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From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
From the mid-19th century until the rise of the modern welfare
state in the early 20th century, Anglo-American philanthropic
giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it
changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the
responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of
industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty,
urbanization, women's work, and sympathy provided a means of
understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic
institutions left a transactional record of money and materials,
philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that
represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing
societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses
including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the
fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to
1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that
crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American
range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels,
letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world
where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined
the public sector.
By the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become
commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as
tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once
as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness.
The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels
reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the
home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels
by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, the
regularity with which Indian commodities appear bespeaks their
burgeoning importance both ideologically and commercially. Such
domestic details as the drinking of tea and the giving of shawls as
gifts point us toward suppressed connections between the feminized
realm of private life and the militarized realm of foreign
commerce. Tracing the history of Indian imports yields a record of
the struggles for territory and political power that marked the
coming-into-being of British India; reading the novels of the
period for the ways in which they infuse meaning into these imports
demonstrates how imperialism was written into the fabric of
everyday life in nineteenth-century England. Situated at the
intersection of Victorian studies, material cultural studies,
gender studies, and British Empire studies, The Empire Inside is
written for academics, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates in all of these fields.
By the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become
commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as
tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once
as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness.
The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels
reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the
home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels
by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony Trollope, the
regularity with which Indian commodities appear bespeaks their
burgeoning importance both ideologically and commercially. Such
domestic details as the drinking of tea and the giving of shawls as
gifts point us toward suppressed connections between the feminized
realm of private life and the militarized realm of foreign
commerce. Tracing the history of Indian imports yields a record of
the struggles for territory and political power that marked the
coming-into-being of British India; reading the novels of the
period for the ways in which they infuse meaning into these imports
demonstrates how imperialism was written into the fabric of
everyday life in nineteenth-century England. Situated at the
intersection of Victorian studies, material cultural studies,
gender studies, and British Empire studies, The Empire Inside is
written for academics, graduate students, and advanced
undergraduates in all of these fields.
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