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Informationen zum Autor Tamara S. Wagner Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;
