{"product_id":"the-empire-inside-suzanne-daly-9780472051342","title":"The Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Empire Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is unique in its tight focus on the objects from one geographical location, and their deployment in one genre of fiction. This combination results in a powerful study with a wealth of fine formal analyses of literary texts and a similar trove of marvelous historical data.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Elaine Freedgood, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Inside\u003c\/i\u003e, Suzanne Daly does a wonderful job integrating an array of primary materials, especially novels and journal essays, to show the extent to which these 'foreign' colonial products of India represented absolutely central aspects of domestic life, at once part of the unremarkable everyday experience of Victorians and rich with meanings.\"\u003cbr\u003e---Timothy Carens, College of Charleston \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Inside: Indian Commodities in Victorian Domestic Novels\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels by Charlotte Brontë, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Empire Inside\u003c\/i\u003e is written for academics, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates in all of these fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Daly is Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Suzanne Daly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472051342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472051342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011","brand":"Suzanne Daly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670385840383,"sku":"9780472051342","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cdb30079-c2bb-4602-99ca-fdb8b77ec097.jpg?v=1741316864","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-empire-inside-suzanne-daly-9780472051342","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}