Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture Choudhury Suchitra
Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture Choudhury Suchitra The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature,…
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Textile Orientalisms: Cashmere and Paisley Shawls in British Literature and Culture Choudhury Suchitra
The first major study of Cashmere and Paisley shawls in nineteenth-century British literature, this book shows how they came to represent both high fashion and the British Empire.During the late eighteenth century, Cashmere shawls from the Indian subcontinent began arriving in Britain. Subsequently, affordable copies known as "Paisley" shawls were mass-produced in British factories, most notably in the Scottish town of the same name. At first, these luxury goods were tokens of wealth and prestige.
Attentive to the juxtaposition of objects and their descriptions, the book analyzes the British obsession with Indian shawls through a convergence of postcolonial, literary, and cultural theories.Surveying a wide range of Textile Orientalisms is the first full-length study of these shawls in British literature of the extended nineteenth century.