Tamara S Wagner

Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317317401
• Artikelnr.: 43589056

Autorenporträt

Tamara S. Wagner

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under, Tamara S. Wagner;
Chapter 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet
Martineau's Homes Abroad, Lesa Scholl; Chapter 2 'Hasten to the Land of
Promise': The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens's Life and
Literature, Diana C. Archibald; Chapter 3 'Ever So Many Part ings Welded
Together': Serial Settlement and Great Expectations, Jude Piesse; Chapter 4
'The Heavens Were on Fire': Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler
Home, Grace Moore; Chapter 5 The 'Australian Girl' and the Domestic Ideal
in Colonial Women's Fiction, Michelle J. Smith; Chapter 6 Fugitive Homes:
Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner's Fiction, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 7
Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: the Unsettled Australian
Domestic of Maud Jean Franc, Susan K. Martin; Chapter 8 'That's What
Children are - Nought But Leg-Ropes': Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs
Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue; Chapter 9 The Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa
Alice Baker's Colonial Aesthetic, Kirby-Jane Hallum; Chapter 10 Antipodal
Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara
Cheeseman's a Rolling Stone, Philip Steer; Chapter 11 'What is in the Blood
will Come Out': Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in
Jessie Weston's Ko Méri, Kirstine Moffat;