Victorian narratives of failed emigration
Tamara S Wagner
Victorian narratives of failed emigration : settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English /Tamara S Wagner - London : Routledge , 2016. - x,286 Pages ;24 cm.
Introduction: failing to settle in the Victorian novel --
Failure into fiction: Frances Trollope and Susanna Moodie --
Charles Dickens's anti-emigration plots --
Wilkie Collins's sensational returnees --
No exotic ends in Charlotte Yonge --
Homecoming in nineteenth-century settler novels: Elizabeth Murray and Clara Cheeseman --
Conclusion.
Highlights the hitherto unexplored sub genre 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.
9781472467065
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002
Immigrants in literature
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
823.809 WAG
Victorian narratives of failed emigration : settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English /Tamara S Wagner - London : Routledge , 2016. - x,286 Pages ;24 cm.
Introduction: failing to settle in the Victorian novel --
Failure into fiction: Frances Trollope and Susanna Moodie --
Charles Dickens's anti-emigration plots --
Wilkie Collins's sensational returnees --
No exotic ends in Charlotte Yonge --
Homecoming in nineteenth-century settler novels: Elizabeth Murray and Clara Cheeseman --
Conclusion.
Highlights the hitherto unexplored sub genre 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.
9781472467065
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002
Immigrants in literature
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
823.809 WAG
