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Textile orientalisms : Cashmere and Paisley shawls in British literature and culture
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Suchitra Choudhury
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2023]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) : illustrations
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780821447857, 0821447858, 9780821425008, 9780821425008
- OCLC
- on1345616149
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Historical Contexts -- 'It Came over but Last Night from India' : The Shawl as Gift in Elizabeth Inchbald's Appearance is Against Them (1785) -- "There Are Braw Shawls Made at Paisley, That Ye Will Scarce Ken Frae Foreign" : Imperialism, Materiality, and Ecology in Walter Scott's St. Ronan's Well and The Surgeon's Daughter -- Thackeray's Irony : The Figure of Cashmere Shawl in Vanity Fair -- 'The Woman in the Red Paisley Shawl' : The Texture of Rebellion in Wilkie Collins's Armadale -- Frederick Niven's The Paisley Shawl (1931)
Subjects
- Shawls in literature.
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- History and criticism.
- Fashion in literature.
- Material culture in literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Cashmere shawls -- Great Britain -- History.
- Shawls -- Great Britain -- History.
- India -- In literature.