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 a
colonial perspective. Bringing together literary formalism and
British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature
describes how what it meant to be 'British' was re-imagined in an
increasingly globalized world.
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