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  1. Portable property
    Victorian culture on the move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691135169; 1400828937; 9780691135168; 9781400828937
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; British / Foreign countries; English fiction; Expatriation in literature; Material culture in literature; National characteristics, British, in literature; Personal belongings in literature; Property in literature; Sentimentalism in literature; English fiction; Material culture in literature; Property in literature; Personal belongings in literature; Sentimentalism in literature; National characteristics, British, in literature; Expatriation in literature; British; Literatur; Besitz <Motiv>; Englisch; Nationalcharakter; Kultur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 268 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Preface : getting hold of portable property -- Introduction : the global, the local, and the portable -- Discreet jewels : Victorian diamond narratives and the problem of sentimental value -- The first strawberries in India : cultural portability abroad -- Someone else's knowledge : race and portable culture in Daniel Deronda -- Locating Lorna Doone : R.D. Blackmore, F.H. Burnett, and the limits of English regionalism -- Going local : characters and environments in Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- Nowhere and everywhere : the end of portability in William Morris's romances -- Conclusion : is portability portable?

    What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readil
  2. Portable property
    Victorian culture on the move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: c2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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  3. Portable property
    Victorian culture on the move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton [u.a.]

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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    244.357
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780691135168; 0691135169
    RVK Categories: HL 1331 ; HL 1101 ; HL 1071
    Subjects: Besitz <Motiv>; Englisch; Besitz <Motiv>
    Scope: XVII, 268 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. [235] - 255
  4. Portable property
    Victorian culture on the move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [u.a.]

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 A 702927
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    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    GE 2008/8716
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2008 A 4931
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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    500 HL 1101 P729
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    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
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    58/20102
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  5. Portable property
    Victorian culture on the move
    Author: Plotz, John
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [u.a.]

    Location:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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