Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy

By: Loh, Waiyee

Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms of dress, etiquette, and dining, in the nineteenth century presumed and produced the idea that British culture is a universal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438498276
• ISBN13: 9781438498270
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"