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British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877

Autor Jude Piesse
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 dec 2015
An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877 presents the first book-length study of the periodical print culture that imagined, mediated, and galvanized this important stage of empire history. It presents extensive new research on how settler emigration was registered within Victorian periodicals and situates its focus on British texts and contexts within a broader, transnational framework. The book argues that the Victorian periodical was an inherently mobile form which had an unrivalled capacity to both register mass settler emigration and moderate its disruptive potential. Part one focuses upon settler emigration genres that featured within mainstream, middle-class periodicals, incorporating the analysis of emigrant voyage texts, emigration themed Christmas stories, and serialized novels about settlement. These genres are cohesive, domestic, and reassuring, and thus of a different character from the adventure stories often associated with Victorian empire. Part two examines a feminist and radical periodical emigration literature that often challenged dominant settler ideologies. Alongside its examination of ephemeral emigration texts, the book offers fresh readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Martin Wheeler, and others. Ultimately, the book shows how periodical settler emigration literature transforms our understanding of both the culture of Victorian empire and Victorian literature and culture as a whole. It also makes significant intersections into debates about periodical form and the role of digitization within Victorian Studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198752967
ISBN-10: 0198752962
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 13 black-and-white halftones
Dimensiuni: 153 x 223 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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This sensitivity to migration and transnational encounter is one of the most rewarding legacies of postcolonial criticism. I particularly recommend...Jude Piesse's British Settler Emigration in Print, 1832-1877.

Notă biografică

Jude Piesse works as Lecturer in English for the University of Chester, based at University Centre Shrewsbury . She gained her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Leeds, the University of East Anglia, King's College London, and the University of Exeter. Her current research interests include literature and migration, the global circulation of nineteenth-century texts, Victorian writing about gold rushes, and the short story form.