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- 2011
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"The Empire Inside is a valuable addition to the recent material turn in Victorian studies, and its attention to the regular habitations of Indian things in Victorian domestic novels proves to be a rich mine for exploring ideas of the empire, and of Englishness."
—Victoriographies
"What makes Daly's approach fresh and engaging is her tight geographic and generic focus: she examines several specific commodities, all from India, as represented in mid-Victorian domestic novels. ... Daly succinctly weaves together historical context, literary analysis, and theoretical framework, drawing on canonical and more obscure novels, primary historical documents, and a wide range of essays from Victorian periodicals. Her study is likely to be of considerable use to scholars interested in Victorian material culture, India and imperialism, and the curious ways in which the foreign and the imperial were absorbed into quotidian English life and identity."
—Studies in the Novel