| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 327 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
Table of contents; list of images; acknowledgments; introduction; part i; gifts of patchwork and visits to whitehall; "i cannot see one without thinking of the other"; authorising the self; exoticism in anglo-indian women's fiction, 1880-1920; "flashed from wire to wire, through the continents of the old and new world"; the traffic in gossip; anglo-australians on fleet street, 1892-1905; frieda cassin's with silent tread and the spectre of leprosy in antigua and britain, 1889-91; part ii; agents or objects?; pauline johnson-tekahionwake; oscar's wild(e) year in america. |
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Female pleasure and muscular arms in touring trapeze actspart iii; traffic in pictures; transporting genres; the traffic of identity; little man walking; "the great and wonderful labyrinth"; spectral traffic; bibliography; contributors; index. |
| Summary |
Organised around the themes Home and Abroad, Performative Traffic, and Image, Circulation, Mobility, Victorian Traffic: Identity, Performance, Exchange variously addresses the cultural dimensions of traffic in the long Victorian period: cross-cultural experience; colonial and racial imaginaries; everyday, literary, autobiographical and professional stagings of identity; and trade in metaphors, communications, texts, images, celebrity, character types, and quilts. The concept of traffic unde ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication and traffic -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Communication and traffic. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1901 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Thomas, Sue, 1955-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Victorian traffic. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008 (DLC) 2008428885 (OCoLC)213479158 |
| ISBN |
9781443810258 (electronic book) |
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1443810258 (electronic book) |
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9781847184559 (hardback) |
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1847184553 (hardback) |
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