| Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India: Representing Colonial Life, 1850-1910 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Agnew, Eadaoin (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319331949 ISBN-13: 9783319331942 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 809.034 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.3" (0.95 lbs) 203 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |