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Imagined Homelands - British Poetry in the Colonies (Hardcover)
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Imagined Homelands - British Poetry in the Colonies (Hardcover)
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Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of
nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry
as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience.
Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, and Canada-often disparaged as derivative
and uncouth-should instead be seen as vitally engaged in the social
and political work of settlement. The book illuminates cultural
pressures that accompanied the unprecedented growth of British
emigration across the nineteenth century. It also explores the role
of poetry as a mediator between familiar British ideals and new
colonial paradigms within emerging literary markets from Sydney and
Melbourne to Cape Town and Halifax. Rudy focuses on the work of
poets both canonical-including Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, and
Hemans-and relatively obscure, from Adam Lindsay Gordon, Susanna
Moodie, and Thomas Pringle to Henry Kendall and Alexander
McLachlan. He examines in particular the nostalgic relations
between home and abroad, core and periphery, whereby British
emigrants used both original compositions and canonical British
works to imagine connections between their colonial experiences and
the lives they left behind in Europe. Drawing on archival work from
four continents, Imagined Homelands insists on a wider geographic
frame for nineteenth-century British literature. From lyrics
printed in newspapers aboard emigrant ships heading to Australia
and South Africa, to ballads circulating in New Zealand and
Canadian colonial journals, poetry was a vibrant component of
emigrant life. In tracing the histories of these poems and the
poets who wrote them, this book provides an alternate account of
nineteenth-century British poetry and, more broadly, of settler
colonial culture.
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