Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. It also demonstrates methodologies and theoretical approaches from this field of study, and puts these into practise in the case studies presented.
Commodity culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. This book analyses the transformation of local cultures in the context of global interaction in the period 1851-1914. It also demonstrates methodologies and theoretical approaches from this field of study, and puts these into practise in the case studies presented.
Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Josephine McDonagh is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Brian H. Murray is Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature at King's College London. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is Global Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at New York University.
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Introduction Part 1: Making and Showing 1. Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827-1880 2. Plates and Bangles: Early Recorded Music in India 3. The Overland Mail: Moving Panoramas and the Imagining of Trade and Communication Networks 4. Exhibiting India: Colonial Subjects, Imperial Objects, and the Life of Commodities Part 2: Place and Environment 5. The Composition and Decomposition of Commodities: The Colonial Careers of Coal and Ivory 6. Profaning Water: The Sacred and Its Others 7. Settling the Land: the Village and the Threat of Capital in the Novel in Goa Part 3: Labour and Migration 8. (Re)Moving Bodies: People, Ships and other Commodities in the Coolie Trade from Calcutta 9. Anxiety, Affect and Authenticity: The Commodification of Nineteenth-Century Emigrants' Letters 10. Towards a Genealogy of the Village in the Nineteenth-Century British Colonial World: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine Part 4: Texts in Motion 11. Indigo and Print: the strange case of the 'Indigo-Planting Mirror' 12. Al Jabr w'al Muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the Coming Together of Things Far Apart 13. Ulysses in Darkest Africa: Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold 14. The Traffic in Representations: the case of Kipling's Kim
Introduction Part 1: Making and Showing 1. Mughal Delhi on my lapel: The charmed life of the painted ivory miniature in Delhi, 1827-1880 2. Plates and Bangles: Early Recorded Music in India 3. The Overland Mail: Moving Panoramas and the Imagining of Trade and Communication Networks 4. Exhibiting India: Colonial Subjects, Imperial Objects, and the Life of Commodities Part 2: Place and Environment 5. The Composition and Decomposition of Commodities: The Colonial Careers of Coal and Ivory 6. Profaning Water: The Sacred and Its Others 7. Settling the Land: the Village and the Threat of Capital in the Novel in Goa Part 3: Labour and Migration 8. (Re)Moving Bodies: People, Ships and other Commodities in the Coolie Trade from Calcutta 9. Anxiety, Affect and Authenticity: The Commodification of Nineteenth-Century Emigrants' Letters 10. Towards a Genealogy of the Village in the Nineteenth-Century British Colonial World: Mary Russell Mitford and Henry Sumner Maine Part 4: Texts in Motion 11. Indigo and Print: the strange case of the 'Indigo-Planting Mirror' 12. Al Jabr w'al Muqabila: H.S. Hall, Macmillan and the Coming Together of Things Far Apart 13. Ulysses in Darkest Africa: Transporting Tennyson with H.M. Stanley and Edwin Arnold 14. The Traffic in Representations: the case of Kipling's Kim
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