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Agnew, Eadaoin.

Imperial women writers in Victorian Indiarepresenting colonial life, 1850-1910 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imperial women writers in Victorian Indiaby Eadaoin Agnew.
Reminder of title:	representing colonial life, 1850-1910 /
Author:	Agnew, Eadaoin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	vii, 203 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	English literatureWomen authors
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33195-9
ISBN:	9783319331959$q(electronic bk.)

Imperial women writers in Victorian Indiarepresenting colonial life, 1850-1910 /
Agnew, Eadaoin.

Imperial women writers in Victorian Indiarepresenting colonial life, 1850-1910 /[electronic resource] :by Eadaoin Agnew. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - vii, 203 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

Introduction -- Chapter 1: There's No Place like Home: Homes and Gardens in Victorian India -- Chapter 2: Good Housekeeping: Household Management and Domestic Organisation -- Chapter 3: Family Ties: Imperial Women as Wives and Mothers -- Chapter 4: Ladies of Leisure: Pastimes, Hobbies and Daily Routines -- Chapter 5: Hot Gossip: Romance and Courtship in Victorian India -- Chapter 6: High Society: Hill Stations and Social Occasions -- Epilogue -- Works Cited.

This book is about Victorian women's representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, romance and courtship and their busy social lives. However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj. In this way, they subverted the constraints of Victorian gender discourses and were part of a growing proto-feminism.

ISBN: 9783319331959$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-33195-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

175250
English literature
--Women authors

LC Class. No.: PR756.W65 / A46 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9355094709034

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