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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.
List of contents
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;
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Tamara S. Wagner
Summary
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.
