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Changing the Victorian subject /

The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readin...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Tonkin, Maggie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Adelaide, South Australia : The University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, [2014]
Colección:Open Access e-Books
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  • Re-visiting the Victorian subject / Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
  • Queen Victoria's Aboriginal subjects : a late colonial Australian case study / Amanda Nettelbeck
  • Identifying with the frontier : federation new woman, nation and empire / Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
  • A "Tigress" in the paradise of dissent : Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story / Margaret Allen
  • The making of Barbara Baynton / Rosemary Moore
  • A literary fortune / Megan Brown
  • Olive Schreiner's From man to man and "the copy within" / Dorothy Driver
  • Guy Boothby's "Bid for fortune": constructing an Anglo-Australian colonial identity for the fin-de-siècle London literary marketplace / Ailise Bulfin
  • The scenery and dresses of her dreams : reading and reflecting (on) the Victorian heroine in M.E. Braddon's The doctor's wife / Madeleine Seys
  • The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing / Mandy Treagus
  • Miss Wade's torment : the perverse construction of same-sex desire in Little Dorrit / Shale Preston
  • "All the world is blind" : unveiling same-sex desire in the poetry of Amy Levy / Carolyn Lake
  • From "Peter Panic" to proto-modernism : the case of J.M. Barrie / Maggie Tonkin.