Moving Subjects and Globalization

A couple of scholar books with some Brontë content:

Moving Subjects
Gender, Mobility, and Intimacy in an Age of Global Empire

Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton

ISBN: 9780252033759
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: January 2009
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

"Moving Subjects" is the first of its kind to make a case not simply for the necessity of a spatial analysis of imperial formations, but for the indispensability of an investigative approach that links space and movement with the domain of the intimate. Through a combination of careful archival research and a commitment to excavating the variety of 'mobile intimacies' at the heart of imperial power, its agents, and its interlocutors, this volume offers new evidence and approaches for scholars engaged in capturing the historical nuances of imperial domination. This book's contributors investigate how intimacy was constructed across the restless world of empire, a world that depended on the circulation of capital and commodities, the exchange of systems of governance and surveillance, and the movement of labourers, slaves, soldiers, and settlers.It's contributors include Tony Ballantyne, Antoinette Burton, Adrian Carton, David Haines, Katherine Ellinghaus, Charlotte Macdonald, Michael A. McDonnell, Kirsten McKenzie, Michelle Moran, Fiona Paisley, Adele Perry, Dana Rabin, Christine M. Skwiot, Rachel Standfield, Frances Steel, Elizabeth Vibert, and Kerry Wynn.

Contains the article: Intimacy of the Envelope: Fiction, Commerce, and Empire in the Correspondence of Friends Mary Taylor and Charlotte Bronte, c. 1845-55 by Charlotte Macdonald.

Globalization and The Great Exhibition The Victorian New World Order

Paul Young

ISBN: 9780230520752
Publication date: January 2009
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

This book foregrounds a capitalist vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society in 1851, emphasizing that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition. Interdisciplinary in its scope and method, the book draws upon literary studies, economic history, cultural geography, and political theory in order to illuminate the event and the texts it considers. It provides an historical context for ongoing and important debates about globalization and imperialism.The book analyzes various textual forms, including Exhibition literature and ephemera (board games, cartoons, lectures, poems, short stories, speeches, etc), analytical prose (writings by Darwin, Thomas Carlyle, Marz, Ruskin) and canonical fiction (by Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Dickens, Eliot and Trollope, amongst others).This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

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