Overview

Colonial 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.

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Author:   Tamara S Wagner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781848935167

ISBN 10:   1848935161
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 August 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineau’s Homes Abroad, Lesa Scholl; Chapter 2 ‘Hasten to the Land of Promise’: The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickens’s Life and Literature, Diana C. Archibald; Chapter 3 ‘Ever So Many Part ings Welded Together’: Serial Settlement and Great Expectations, Jude Piesse; Chapter 4 ‘The Heavens Were on Fire’: Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home, Grace Moore; Chapter 5 The ‘Australian Girl’ and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women’s Fiction, Michelle J. Smith; Chapter 6 Fugitive Homes: Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner’s Fiction, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 7 Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: the Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc, Susan K. Martin; Chapter 8 ‘That’s What Children are – Nought But Leg-Ropes’: Motherhood in Rosa Praed’s Mrs Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue; Chapter 9 The Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa Alice Baker’s Colonial Aesthetic, Kirby-Jane Hallum; Chapter 10 Antipodal Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara Cheeseman’s a Rolling Stone, Philip Steer; Chapter 11 ‘What is in the Blood will Come Out’: Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in Jessie Weston’s Ko Méri, Kirstine Moffat;

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'This welcome new collection of eleven essays aims to fill a gap in the scholarship on both domestic fiction and Australasian literature of the Victorian period.' Victorian Periodicals Review

Author Information

Tamara S Wagner obtained her PhD from Cambridge University and is Associate Professor at Nan-yang Technological University, Singapore. Her books include Longing: Narratives of Nostalgia in the British Novel, 1740-1890 (2004), Occidentalism in Novels of Malaysia and Singapore, 1819-2004 (2005), and Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901 (2010).

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