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British Women and Cultural Practices of Empire, 1770-1940: Material Culture of Art and Design

Editat de Dr Rosie Dias, Dr Kate Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 oct 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501332159
ISBN-10: 1501332155
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 11 colour and 27 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Material Culture of Art and Design

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Analyzes wide array of cultural productions - correspondence, travel writing, diary writing, painting, scrapbooking, curating, collecting, house interiors and didactic literature

Notă biografică

Kate Smith is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History, University of Birmingham, UK.Rosie Dias is Associate Professor in the History of Art, University of Warwick, UK.

Cuprins

List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionRosie Dias (University of Warwick, UK) and Kate Smith (University of Birmingham, UK)Part I: Travel1: The Travelling Eye: British Women in Early 19th-Century IndiaDavid Arnold (University of Warwick, UK)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, 1774-1776Viccy Coltman (University of Edinburgh, UK)3: Sketches from the Gendered Frontier: Colonial Women's Images of Encounters with Aboriginal People in Australia, 1830s-1860sCaroline Jordan (La Trobe University, Australia)Part II: Collecting4: "Of manly enterprise, and female taste!": Mina Malcolm's Cottage as Imperial Exhibition, c. 1790s-1970sEllen Filor (University of Michigan, USA)5: A Lily of the Murray: Cultivating the Colonial Landscape through Album AssemblageMolly Duggins (National Art School, Australia)6: Collecting the "East": Women Travellers New on the New "Grand Tour"Amy Miller (Royal Museums Greenwich, UK)Part III: Identities7: Agents of Affect: Queen Victoria's Indian GiftsRosie Dias (University of Warwick, UK)8: 'Prime Minister in the Home Department': Female Gendered Identity in 19th-Century Upper CanadaRosie Spooner (University of Glasgow, UK)9: Reconstructing the Lives of Professional Women in 1930s Zanzibar through Image, Object and TextSarah Longair (British Museum, UK)BibliographyIndex

Recenzii

It is well established that work, culture, and empire were highly gendered concepts and practices in nineteenth century Britain. And yet, women are rarely invoked as cultural producers in the networks of Empire. This superb collection of essays examines the cultural significance of British women travelling, collecting, publishing, crafting, curating, cultivating, sketching, administering, and more. Moving well beyond bureaucratic archives, this volume recovers compelling material traces of the role that British women played in the creation and propagation of empire.
Here comes a long overdue interdisciplinary study of British women and their literary and material engagements with the British empire in the long nineteenth century. The reader travels from North Carolina to Zanzibar, India to Australia, in a geographical sweep that encompasses the length and breadth of Britain's empire. Along the way, we encounter a staggering array of things from letters to coconut shells and flower paintings to an ivory throne as the authors examine the dense networks of art and material cultures that shaped the public and private domains of imperial life. From everyday objects and select royal gifts emerge complex histories of travel, curiosity, art-patronage, gift-exchange, loot, frontier politics, and slavery.
Taking a diverse approach to material culture in Empire, this book broadens our understanding of the imperial archive, allowing us ultimately to read the lives and experiences of women in Empire in new ways. Enriched with sumptuous detail and extensive research, the reader embarks on a virtual tour of the female networks of material culture, collecting and creating that enlivened the lives of colonial women, and left a legacy of female agency and action for the historian. These women made sense of their colonial lives by reference to remembered landscape of home, a sense of purpose through collection and curation, and by creating webs of imagined community with their correspondents at home and abroad through the writing of letters and the sending of gifts. Bringing together gendered, literary, visual and material cultures, this volume gives a uniquely enriched insight into the lives of imperial women from the objects they collected, the texts they created, and the networks they curated.