1. Bill Brown, ‘Thing Theory’, Things, Special Issue of Critical Inquiry, 28 (2001), 4.
2. Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn, ‘Introduction’, in Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, ed. Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn (London: Routledge, 1998), p. 3.
3. Erika Rappaport, ‘Imperial Possessions, Cultural Histories, and the Material Turn: Response’, Victorian Studies, 50 (2008), 289.
4. See Elaine Freedgood, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
5. See Karen R. Lawrence, Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994), pp. 20–1.