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What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian Britons that they could travel abroad with religious sentiments, family ties, and national identity intact. In an empire defined as much by the circulation of capital as by force of arms, the challenge of preserving Englishness while living overseas became a central Victorian preoccupation, creating a pressing need for objects that could readily travel abroad as personifications of Britishness. At the same time a radically new relationship between cash value and sentimental associations arose in certain resonant mementoes--in teacups, rings, sprigs of heather, and handkerchiefs, but most of all in books. Portable Property examines how culture-bearing objects came to stand for distant people and places, creating or preserving a sense of self and community despite geographic dislocation. Victorian novels--because they themselves came to be understood as the quintessential portable property--tell the story of this change most clearly. Plotz analyzes a wide range of works, paying particular attention to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, Anthony Trollope's Eustace Diamonds, and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone. He also discusses Thomas Hardy and William Morris's vehement attack on the very notion of cultural portability. The result is a richer understanding of the role of objects in British culture at home and abroad during the Age of Empire.

British --- Expatriation in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- Personal belongings in literature. --- Property in literature. --- Material culture in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism.

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For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their experiences in some form of exile. Spanning writing from the 1920s to the present, Away contains work by the writers mentioned above, alongside earlier pieces by Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagor

Indic literature (English) --- East Indians --- Emigration and immigration in literature. --- Expatriation in literature. --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- English literature --- Indo-English literature --- Indic literature --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Littérature de l'Inde (anglaise) --- Indiens (Orientaux) --- Emigration et immigration dans la littérature --- Expatriation dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Vie intellectuelle --- LITTERATURE DE L'INDE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- EMIGRATION ET IMMIGRATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- INDIENS DE L'INDE --- A L'ETRANGER --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE --- Émigration et immigration --- Dans la littérature