Suchitra Choudhury Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture 9780821425008

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Автор: Suchitra Choudhury
Название: Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780821425008
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Мода и текстиль: дизайн

Литература: история и критика

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ISBN-10: 0821425005
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 242
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 07.03.2023
Серия: Series in victorian studies
Язык: English
Размер: 157 x 237 x 23
Ключевые слова: Fashion & society,Literature: history & criticism, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories,HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901),LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: Cashmere and paisley shawls in british literature and culture
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The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire.
During the late eighteenth century, Cashmere shawls from the Indian subcontinent began arriving in Britain. At first, these luxury goods were tokens of wealth and prestige. Subsequently, affordable copies known as “Paisley” shawls were mass-produced in British factories, most notably in the Scottish town of the same name. Textile Orientalisms is the first full-length study of these shawls in British literature of the extended nineteenth century. Attentive to the juxtaposition of objects and their descriptions, the book analyzes the British obsession with Indian shawls through a convergence of postcolonial, literary, and cultural theories.
Surveying a wide range of materials—plays, poems, satires, novels, advertisements, and archival sources—Suchitra Choudhury argues that while Cashmere and Paisley shawls were popular accoutrements in Romantic and Victorian Britain, their significance was not limited to fashion. Instead, as visible symbols of British expansion, for many imaginative writers they emerged as metaphorical sites reflecting the pleasures and anxieties of the empire. Attentive to new theorizations of history, fashion, colonialism, and gender, the book offers innovative readings of works by Sir Walter Scott, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Frederick Niven, and Elizabeth Inchbald. In determining a key status for shawls in nineteenth-century literature, Textile Orientalisms reformulates the place of fashion and textiles in imperial studies.
The book’s distinction rests primarily on three accounts. First, in presenting an original and extended discussion of Cashmere and Paisley shawls, Choudhury offers a new way of interpreting the British Empire. Second, by tracing how shawls represented the social and imperial experience, she argues for an associative link between popular consumption and the domestic experience of colonialism on the one hand and a broader evocation of texts and textiles on the other. Finally, discussions about global objects during the Victorian period tend to overlook that imperial Britain not only imported goods but also produced their copies and imitations on an industrial scale. By identifying the corporeal tropes of authenticity and imitation that lay at the heart of nineteenth-century imaginative production, Choudhury’s work points to a new direction in critical studies.

Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture, Suchitra Choudhury