The Victorian colonial romance with the antipodes /

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colon...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blythe, Helen Lucy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1899
English literature > History and criticism > 19th century.
Colonies in literature.
British > New Zealand > History > 19th century.
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Class consciousness in literature.
Social values in literature.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique > 19e siècle.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Britanniques > Nouvelle-Zélande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conscience de classe dans la littérature.
Valeurs sociales dans la littérature.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English.
British
Class consciousness in literature
Colonies in literature
English literature
Literature
Middle class
Social values in literature
Literature: history & criticism > English > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
Geographical discovery & exploration > English > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
General & world history > English > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English > 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
Literature.
New Zealand > In literature.
Great Britain
New Zealand
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the meridian of the Antipodes: a shadowy resting place for the imagination
  • A Victorian sublunary heaven: emigration and Tom Arnold's "antipodistic" romance
  • "Looking yonderly": Mary Taylor's Miss Miles: or, a tale of Yorkshire life
  • Antipodal effervescence: Robert Browning, Alfred Domett, and Ranolf and Amohia: a South-Sea day dream
  • Crossings or the swinging door: Samuel Butlers Erewhon or over the range
  • Barbarous benevolence: Anthony Trollope's The fixed period (1882) and Australia and New Zealand.

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