: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire Steer, Philip. creator Philip Steer. text New York : Cambridge University Press , 2020 monographic eng

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xi, 227p. : 24cm. How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of 'Britishness' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Alongside lesser-known colonial writers such as Catherine Spence and Julius Vogel, British novelists from Dickens to Trollope are also put in a new light by this fresh approach that places Victorian studies in a colonial perspective. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature describes how what it meant to be 'British' was re-imagined in an increasingly globalized world. / Philip Steer. Victorian Literature Economic & Political Network of Empire 823.80 STE 9781108735858 : Kabdwal Book International : 4th Floor, Narayan Plaza 26-A, Chandivali Road, Near Boomerang Building, Andheri East, Mumbai. 260320 20260320124200.0