Objects and Textures of Everyday Life and Literature in Imperial Britain
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781409455189
Subjects: Material culture; House furnishings; Commercial products; Imperialism; Group identity; Great britain, social life and customs
Description: "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.