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题名/责任者:

British settler emigration in print, 1832-1877 / Jude Piesse.

版本说明:

First Edition.

出版发行项:

Oxford; New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2016.

ISBN:

9780198752967 (hardback)

ISBN:

0198752962

载体形态项:

viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

个人责任者:

Piesse, Jude, author.

论题主题:

English literature-19th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Emigration and immigration in literature.

论题主题:

Imperialism in literature.

地理名称主题:

Great Britain-Emigration and immigration-History-19th century.

中图法分类号:

I561.064

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-212) and index.

摘要附注:

An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, 'British eettler emigration in print, 1832-1877' presents the first book-length study of the periodical print culture that imagined, mediated, and galvanized this important stage of empire history. It presents extensive new research on how settler emigration was registered within Victorian periodicals and situates its focus on British texts and contexts within a broader, transnational framework. The book argues that the Victorian periodical was an inherently mobile form which had an unrivalled capacity to both register mass settler emigration and moderate its disruptive potential. Part one focuses upon settler emigration genres that featured within mainstream, middle-class periodicals, incorporating the analysis of emigrant voyage texts, emigration themed Christmas stories, and serialized novels about settlement. These genres are cohesive, domestic, and reassuring, and thus of a different character from the adventure stories often associated with Victorian empire. Part two examines a feminist and radical periodical emigration literature that often challenged dominant settler ideologies. Alongside its examination of ephemeral emigration texts, the book offers fresh readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Martin Wheeler, and others. Ultimately, the book shows how periodical settler emigration literature transforms our understanding of both the culture of Victorian empire and Victorian literature and culture as a whole. It also makes significant intersections into debates about periodical form and the role of digitization within Victorian Studies.

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