Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature Steer Hardback 9781108484428
Cambridge University Press
How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of 'Britishness' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Alongside lesser-known colonial writers such as Catherine Spence and Julius Vogel, British novelists from Dickens to Trollope are also put in a new light by this fresh approach that places Victorian studies in a colonial\n\nSettler Colonialism in Victorian Literature\nEconomics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Roy;
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