Writing the Colonial Adventure
Writing the Colonial Adventure

Author: Robert Dixon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-08-28

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780521481908

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This book is an exploration of popular late nineteenth-century texts that show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on the period from the advent of the new imperialism in the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, Robert Dixon looks at a selection of British and Australian writers. Their books, he argues, offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race, and Australian nationhood and identity. Writing the Colonial Adventure shows that the genre of adventure/romance was highly popular throughout this period. The book examines the variety of themes within their narrative form that captured many aspects of imperial ideology. In considering the broader ramifications of these works, Professor Dixon develops an original approach to popular fiction, both for its own sake and as a mode of cultural history.

Writing the Colonial Adventure
Writing the Colonial Adventure

Author: Robert Dixon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780521484398

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This book explores imperial ideology through the narrative themes of popular texts.

The Adventure of the Colonial Boy
The Adventure of the Colonial Boy

Author: Narrelle M Harris

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-31

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780993513626

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1893. Dr Watson, still in mourning for the death of his great friend Sherlock Holmes, is now triply bereaved, with his wife Mary's death in childbirth. Then a telegram from Melbourne, Australia intrudes into his grief. "Come at once if convenient." Both suspicious and desperate to believe that Holmes may not, after all, be dead, Watson goes as immediately as the sea voyage will allow. Soon Holmes and Watson are together again, on an adventure through Bohemian Melbourne and rural Victoria, following a series of murders linked by a repulsive red leech and one of Moriarty's lieutenants. But things are not as they were. Too many words lie unsaid between the Great Detective and his biographer. Too much that they feel is a secret. Solve the crime, forgive a friend, rediscover trust and admit to love. Surely that is not beyond that legendary duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson?

Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Author: Juliet Shields

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1009003054

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Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women's writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Colonial Ste. Genevieve
Colonial Ste. Genevieve

Author: Carl J. Ekberg

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 2014-09-24

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 0809333805

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Dr. Ekberg's masterwork on the old French town south of St. Louis brings into sharp focus life in colonial America. Ekberg has rendered a rich portrait of community life on the most fascinating of American frontiers, the composite world of French Creoles and American Indians in the Mississippi Valley. This is an important book and a good read to boot. That's how Yale University's John Mack Faragher praised this book.

Write Your Own Adventure Story
Write Your Own Adventure Story

Author:

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9780756516383

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Guide to writing adventure stories with tips on creating believable characters and plots, using dialogue, and overcoming writer's block.

You Choose: Historical Eras: Colonial America
You Choose: Historical Eras: Colonial America

Author: Allison Louise Lassieur

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1620650312

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Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?