Victorian Settler Narratives

Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Herausgeber: Wagner, Tamara S

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Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138664432
• ISBN-10: 113866443X
• Artikelnr.: 44973530

Autorenporträt

Tamara S. Wagner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narrating Domestic Portability: Emigration, Domesticity and
Genre Formation, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 1 Unsettled Status in Australian
Settler Novels, Dorice Williams Elliott; Chapter 2 Agents of Empire and
Feminist Rebels: Settlement and Gender in Isabella Aylmer's Distant Homes
and Ellen Ellis's Everything is Possible to Will, Kirstine Moffat; Chapter
3 Reconstructing British Domesticity on the North American Frontier, Linda
H. Peterson; Chapter 4 Divided House, Divided Self: Susanna Moodie's Flora
Lyndsay; or, Passages From an Eventful Life, Mary Ellen Kappler; Chapter 5
For Fortune and Adventure: Representations of Emigration in British Popular
Fiction, 1870-1914, Amy J. Lloyd; Chapter 6 The Return and Rescue of the
Émigré in a Tale of Two Cities, John McBratney; Chapter 7 Settling Back in
at Home: Impostors and Imperial Panic in Victorian Narratives of Return,
Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 8 Surviving Black Thursday: The Great Bushfire of
1851, Grace Moore; Chapter 9 'I am but a Stranger everywhere': Missionary
Themes in Charlotte Yonge's New Ground and My Young Alcides, Susan Walton;
Chapter 10 Sad Remains: Foreclosing Settlement in the Coral Island,
Michelle Elleray; Chapter 11 Nineteenth-Century Female Crusoes: Rewriting
the Robinsonade for Girls, Michelle J. Smith; Chapter 12 'The Freedom Suits
Me': Encouraging Girls to Settle in the Colonies, Kristine Moruzi; Chapter
13 Domestic Goddesses on the Frontier; or, Tempting the Mothers of Empire
with Adventure, Terri Doughty; Chapter 14 A 'Curious Political and Social
Experiment': A Settler Utopia, Feminism and a Greater Britain in Catherine
Helen Spence's Handfasted, Terra Walston Joseph;