Contents 
List of Ulustrations 
Preface 
Getting Hold of Portable Property 
INTRODUCTION 
The Global, the Local, and the Portable 
CHAPTER ONE 
Discreet Jewels: Victorian Diamond Narratives and the Problem 
of Sentimental Value 
CHAPTER TWO 
The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability Abroad 
CHAPTER THREE 
Someone Else's Knowledge: Race and Portable Culture 
in Daniel Deronda 
CHAPTER FOUR 
Locating Lorna Doone: R. D. Blackmore, F. H. Burnett, 
and the Limits of English Regionalism 
CHAPTER FIVE 
Going Local: Characters and Environments 
in Thomas Hardy's Wessex 
CHAPTER SIX 
Nowhere and Everywhere: The End of Portability 
in William Morris's Romances 
CONCLUSION 
Is Portability Portable? 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 
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