Philip Steer

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature (eBook, PDF)

Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108636094
• Artikelnr.: 70912381

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.