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'This book consistently inspires deep thinking, offering new perspectives on materials our field would benefit from knowing better. The methodological innovations are an especially significant contribution that I trust will provoke future work.' Jason Rudy, Victorian Studies '... Steer demonstrates in this book a tough-minded, materialist analysis of form that draws its evidence from works of political economy as well as literature. The result is a deeply compelling argument that charts the 'reverse migration' (187) of economic and cultural forms from the settler colonies to metropolitan markets, both financial and literary ... Perhaps most compelling in larger conceptual terms, however, are his ruptures of the settled borders that govern many assumptions about our objects of study: borders of identity and character, of nation and empire, and especially of form and literature.' Lynn Voskuil, Nineteenth-Century Contexts 'One of the real pleasures of Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature is its attentiveness to landscape and the complicated aesthetic relationship that many migrants experienced with their new environments ... Folding historians, artists and political economists into his incisive discussion to create a vivid sense of the cultural landscape and how it inflected the generic properties of both colonial literature and the English novel ... Steer adeptly weaves sociological, literary and economic theory throughout his analysis, tracking the entanglement of intellectual, literary and commodity culture to offer a rich and nuanced account of circulating influence, via a network of mobile writers . Importantly, he reminds his readers in his sensitive and self-reflexive conclusion that the issues he raises cannot simply be consigned to the field of Victorian studies. Rather, they leave legacies which continue to shape life in Australia and New Zealand today, and with which we must all engage. This is a superbly intelligent and wonderfully researched book, showcasing the intricacy of colonial connectedness.' Grace Moore, Journal of New Zealand Studies

'This book consistently inspires deep thinking, offering new perspectives on materials our field would benefit from knowing better. The methodological innovations are an especially significant contribution that I trust will provoke future work.' Jason Rudy, Victorian Studies

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Philip Steer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University, Auckland. He is co-editor with Nathan K. Hensley of Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire (2018), and his essays have appeared in Victorian Studies and Victorian Literature and Culture, as well as in Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism (2018) and A History of New Zealand Literature (Cambridge, 2016). He completed his doctorate at Duke University after being awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. He is also the recipient of a Marsden Fund Fast-Start Grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand.

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