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This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors
explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist
propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British
literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and
the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of
fiction.
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.
This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors
explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist
propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British
literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and
the creation of new gender roles such as 'girl Crusoes' in works of
fiction.
Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring
together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of
consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from
the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an
excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology,
philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial
studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and
German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audiences
both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food
and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.
Consuming Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century aims to bring
together detailed analyses of the cultural myths, or fictions, of
consumption that have shaped discourses on consumer practices from
the eighteenth century onwards. Individual essays provide an
excitingly diverse range of perspectives, including musicology,
philosophy, history, and art history, cultural and postcolonial
studies as well as the study of literature in English, French, and
German. The broad scope of this collection will engage audience
both inside and outside academia interested in the politics of food
and consumption in eighteenth and nineteenth century culture.
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.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
The writings of Frances Trollope have been subject to increasing
academic interest in recent years, and are now widely studied. In
this four-volume set her comical, yet subversive, treatment of
Victorian marriage provides an interesting contrast to some of the
more earnest but conventional fiction of the time.
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.
This book provides a critical reconsideration of nineteenth-century
women's writing by exploring the significance of antifeminist
representations for literary developments in the century's second
half. It seeks to draw new attention to still neglected authors and
works, while suggesting that their reappraisal at once demands and
helps to facilitate a more encompassing rethinking of a number of
long neglected writers and their still underestimated contribution
to Victorian literary culture. Their changing classification, their
marginalisation within canon formation, and most importantly, their
resistance to simplifications suggested by these shifting
categorisations prompts us to break out of such ideological
straightjackets ourselves. In analysing a range of material that
testifies to the wide spectrum, versatility, and reflexive
interchanges of popular Victorian fiction, the essays in this
collection work together to interrogate the significance of these
still neglected works for the development of the novel genre.This
collection makes an important contribution to the study of
Victorian literature and especially of recently rediscovered
popular writers. It will be of interest to literary critics and
students working on the formation of the novel genre in general as
well as on nineteenth-century culture more specifically.
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