Empire of diamonds : Victorian gems in imperial settings / Adrienne Munich.
"The author of this volume is the longtime coeditor of the scholarly journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, and during her research of the highly successful book, Queen Victoria's Secrets, she became curious about the proliferation of print material on diamonds around the time of Victo...
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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.