TY - BOOK AU - Tamara S Wagner AU - Tamara S Wagner TI - Victorian narratives of failed emigration : : settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English SN - 9781472467065 U1 - 823.809 WAG PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - : Routledge KW - Immigrants in literature KW - English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -