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Auteur(s) : Steer, Philip (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Settler colonialism in Victorian literature [Texte imprimé] : economics and political identity in the networks of empire / Philip Steer
Publication : Cambridge (GB) ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi, 227 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Impérialisme -- Dans la littérature
Roman anglais -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Roman anglophone -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108484428. - ISBN 1108484425 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108735858. - ISBN 1108735851.
- ISBN 9781108695824 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb466321899
Notice n° :
FRBNF46632189
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
