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020 _a9781472467065
028 _aInternational Book Distributors
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082 _a823.809 WAG
100 _aTamara S Wagner
245 _aVictorian narratives of failed emigration
_b: settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English
_c/Tamara S Wagner
260 _aLondon
_b: Routledge
_c, 2016.
300 _ax,286 Pages
_c;24 cm.
365 _b11064
505 _a 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.
520 _aHighlights 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.
650 _aImmigrants in literature
655 _aEnglish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
700 _aTamara S Wagner
942 _cBOOK