Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India : Representing Colonial Life, 1850-1910
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3319814508
ISBN-13
9783319814506
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 28th, 2018
Print length
203 Pages
Ksh 13,500.00
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However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj.
This book is about Victorian women’s representations of colonial life in India. These accounts contributed to imperial rule by exemplifying an idealized middle-class femininity and attesting to the Anglicisation of the subcontinent. Writers described familiarly feminine modes of experience, focusing on the domestic environment, household management, the family, hobbies and pastimes, romance and courtship and their busy social lives. However, this book reveals the extent to which their lives in India bore little resemblance to their lives in Britain and suggests that the acclaimed transportation of the home culture was largely an ideological construct iterated by women writers in the service of the Raj. In this way, they subverted the constraints of Victorian gender discourses and were part of a growing proto-feminism.
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