Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Metropolitan Culture -- 1. The Transportable Pip: Liberal Character, Territory, and the Settled Subject -- 2. Gold and Greater Britain: The Australian Gold Rushes, Unsettled Desire, and the Global British Subject -- 3. Speculative Utopianism: Colonial Progress,...

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1. Verfasser:	Steer, Philip 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Abschlussarbeit Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 122
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1830-1900 Literatur Englisch Auswanderung > Motiv Kolonie > Motiv Großbritannien English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism Commonwealth fiction (English) / 19th century / History and criticism Imperialism in literature Colonies in literature National characteristics in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Introduction: Settler Colonialism and Metropolitan Culture -- 1. The Transportable Pip: Liberal Character, Territory, and the Settled Subject -- 2. Gold and Greater Britain: The Australian Gold Rushes, Unsettled Desire, and the Global British Subject -- 3. Speculative Utopianism: Colonial Progress, Debt, and Greater Britain -- 4. Manning the Imperial Outpost: The Invasion Novel, Geopolitics, and the Borders of Britishness -- Conclusion "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 colonial perspective. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature describes how what it meant to be 'British' was reimagined in an increasingly globalized world"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xi, 227 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:	9781108484428