Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art Contributor(s): Shaikh, Fariha (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474433707 ISBN-13: 9781474433709 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Canadian - Literary Criticism | Australian & Oceanian |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Canadian - Cultural Region - Oceania |
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Publisher Description: Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration. Arguing that the demographic shift to settler colonies in Canada, Australia, New Zealand was supported and underpinned by a vast outpouring of text, this monograph brings printed emigrants' letters, manuscript shipboard newspapers and settler fiction into conversation with the works of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Catherine Helen Spence and Ford Madox Brown, amongst others. The monograph demonstrates how the textual cultures of settler emigration pervaded the nineteenth-century cultural imagination and provided authors and artists with a means of interrogating representations of space and place, home-making and colonial encounters. Key features
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