: settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English Tamara S Wagner creator Tamara S Wagner text English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. London : Routledge , 2016 monographic eng

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x,286 Pages ;24 cm. 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. 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. /Tamara S Wagner Immigrants in literature 823.809 WAG 9781472467065 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,New Delhi-110002 200108 20200213125641.0