Philip Steer (Auckland Massey University)

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Australia, New Zealand and Britain. Analysis of both literary and economic texts gives students an essential grounding in the historical and political context of empire that shaped the Victorian novel.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484428
• ISBN-10: 1108484425
• Artikelnr.: 57018029

Autorenporträt

Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, Auckland. He is co-editor with Nathan K. Hensley of Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (2018), and his essays have appeared in Victorian Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture, as well as in Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism (2018) and A History of New Zealand Literature (Cambridge, 2016). He completed his doctorate at Duke University after being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. He is also the recipient of a Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: settler colonialism and metropolitan culture; 1. The transportable pip: liberal character
territory
and the settled subject; 2. Gold and greater Britain: the Australian gold rushes
unsettled desire
and the Global British subject; 3. Speculative utopianism: colonial progress
debt
and Greater Britain; 4. Manning the imperial outpost: the invasion novel
geopolitics
and the borders of Britishness; Conclusion.