Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration - Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English

Summary

Arguing that failure, the threat of failure, and even a curious desire to fail in the attempt to emigrate drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways, Tamara S. Wagner offers a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation. She highlight

Product details

• Authors: Tamara S Wagner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367881153
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88115-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literature: history & criticism, Migration, immigration and emigration, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples