Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g
Reihe: Gender and Genre
Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g
Reihe: Gender and Genre
ISBN: 978-1-84893-516-7
Verlag: Routledge
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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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;
