Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India Representing Colonial Life 1850 1910 1st Edition by Eadaoin Agnew ISBN 3319331957 9783319331959

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ISBN 10: 3319331957 
ISBN 13: 9783319331959
Author: Éadaoin Agnew

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.

Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India Representing Colonial Life 1850 1910 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Imperial Women Writers in Victorian India
2 There’s No Place Like Home: Homes and Gardens in Victorian India
3 Good Housekeeping: Household Management and Domestic Organization
4 Family Ties: Imperial Women as Wives and Mothers
5 Ladies of Leisure: Pastimes, Daily Routines, and Philanthropic Duties
6 Hot Gossip: Sex and Sexuality in Victorian India
7 High Society: Hill Stations and Social Occasions
8 Epilogue

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