Textile orientalisms : Cashmere and Paisley shawls in British literature and culture /
Considering popular literary images of Indian and Paisley shawls as markers of fashion, class, gender, and race during the long nineteenth century, this book shows how Indian imports and influences shaped wider discussions of British literature, art, politics and empire.
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Series in Victorian studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Historical Contexts
- 'It Came over but Last Night from India' : The Shawl as Gift in Elizabeth Inchbald's Appearance is Against Them (1785)
- "There Are Braw Shawls Made at Paisley, That Ye Will Scarce Ken Frae Foreign" : Imperialism, Materiality, and Ecology in Walter Scott's St. Ronan's Well and The Surgeon's Daughter
- Thackeray's Irony : The Figure of Cashmere Shawl in Vanity Fair
- 'The Woman in the Red Paisley Shawl' : The Texture of Rebellion in Wilkie Collins's Armadale
- Frederick Niven's The Paisley Shawl (1931).