Empire of diamonds : Victorian gems in imperial settings /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munich, Adrienne (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Charlottesville, Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Diamond Stories, Diamond Settings
  • India: Gems from the Gods. Conversions of the Last Maharajah of the Punjab and His Koh-i-noor Diamond
  • The Moonstone's Sacred Masculinity
  • Imitation India in Robert Louis Stevenson and Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Kim as Jewel and Crown
  • England: Diamond Metropole. Diamond Games for a Dead Man
  • Ivanhoe's Racialized Legacy to English Diamond Novels
  • South Africa: The Karoo Setting. True Stories on the Diamond Fields
  • The Scramble and the Scramblers
  • Domestic Romance Adventures on the Diamond Fields
  • Disavowed, Dispossessed Boers in Charlotte Mansfield and Olive Schreiner
  • Epilogue: America- Diamond Is for Everyone.