Portable property : Victorian culture on the move /
Plotz, John,1967-
Princeton, N.J ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-255) and index.
Discreet jewels: Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value -- The first strawberries in India: cultural portability abroad -- Someone else's knowledge: race and portable culture in Daniel Deronda -- Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, and the limits of English regionalism -- Going local: characters and environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- Nowhere and everywhere: the end of portability in William Morris's romances .
English fiction
Material culture in literature.
Property in literature.
Personal belongings in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Expatriation in literature.
British