Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel
Author: Diana C. Archibald
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0826264107
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Author: Diana C. Archibald
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0826264107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tamara S Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1317323130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Tamara S Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1317002172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.
Author: Diana Christine Archibald
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. Blythe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-21
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1137397837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.
Author: Jude Piesse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0198752962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877 examines the literature of Victorian settler emigration in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, arguing that popular Victorian periodicals played a key and overlooked role in imagining and moderating this dramatic historical experience.
Author: Naz Bulamur
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-02-08
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1443888672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVictorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female violence in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the murderess in these four novels challenges the assumption that women are essentially nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression are exclusively male traits. By focusing on the representations of murder committed by women, this book demonstrates how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology, as female criminals were often locked up in asylums and publicly executed without substantial evidence. While paying close attention to the social, economic, judicial, and political dynamics of Victorian England, this interdisciplinary study also tackles the question of female agency, as the novels simultaneously portray women as perpetrators of murder and excuse their socially unacceptable traits of anger and violence by invoking heredity and madness. Although the four novels tend to undercut female power and attribute violence to adulterous women, they are revolutionary enough to deploy female characters who rebel against male sovereignty and their domestic roles by stabbing their rapists and even killing their newborns. Victorian studies on gender and violence focus primarily on female victims of sexual harassment, and real and fictional male killers like Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Victorian Murderesses contributes to the field by investigating how literary representations of female violence counter the idealisation of women as angelic housewives.
Author: Juliet John
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 0199593736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes, including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics, including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on "Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology," "Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief," and "Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures"), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own "lead" essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of "literary" culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
Author: Tamara S Wagner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1317317408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColonial 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.
Author: Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-09-13
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 113754547X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape.