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Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration - Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration - Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant,
Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive
nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally
revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre
of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important
counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that
was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of
characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient
narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public
policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of
society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was
increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be
so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to
the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted'
might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes
representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens,
Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with
Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth
Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new
literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also
of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.
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