British women and cultural practices of empire, 1770-1940 / edited by Rosie Dias and Kate Smith.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
  • ©2019
Description
xiii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.

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Series
Material culture of art and design [More in this series]
Summary note
Correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting and house interiors allowed British women scope to express their responses to imperial sites and experiences in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Taking these productions as its archive, British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1775-1930 includes a collection of essays from different disciplines that consider the role of British women's cultural practices and productions in conceptualising empire. While such productions have started to receive greater scholarly attention, this volume uses a more self-conscious lens of gender to question whether female cultural work demonstrates that colonial women engaged with the spaces and places of empire in distinctive ways. By working across disciplines, centuries and different colonial geographies, the volume makes an exciting and important contribution to the field by demonstrating the diverse ways in which European women shaped constructions of empire in the modern period.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-268 and index.
Contents
  • Part one : Travel
  • 1. The travelling eye : British women in early 19th-century India / David Arnold
  • 2. Paper trails of imperial trav(a)ils : Janet Schaw's Journal of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina and Portugal, 1774-1776 / Viccy Coltman
  • 3. Sketches from the gendered frontier : colonial women's images of encounters with Aboriginal people in Australia, 1830s-1860s / Caroline Jordan
  • Part two : Collecting
  • 4. "Of manly enterprise, and female taste!" : Mina Malcolm's cottage as imperial exhibition, c. 1790s-1970s / Ellen Filor
  • 5. A lily of the Murray : cultivating the colonial landscape through album assemblage / Molly Duggins
  • 6. Collecting the "East" : women travellers on the new "Grand Tour" / Amy Miller
  • Part three : Administering
  • 7. Agents of affect : Queen Victoria's Indian gifts / Rosie Dias
  • 8. "Prime Minister in the Home Department" : female gendered identity in 19th-century Upper Canada / Rosie Spooner
  • 9. Reconstructing the lives of professional women in 1930s Zanzibar through image, object and text / Sarah Longair.
ISBN
  • 9781501332159 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
  • 1501332155 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2018040263
OCLC
1049574683
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