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Antipodal England : emigration and portable domesticity in the Victorian imagination / Janet C. Myers.
Van Pelt Library PR468.E45 M94 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers, Janet C., 1969-
- Series:
- SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Home in literature.
- Women in literature.
- Middle class women--England.
- Middle class women.
- Women immigrants--Australia.
- Women immigrants.
- British.
- Manners and customs.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Australia--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Australia.
- British--Australia--Social life and customs.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- x, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- "Another English house in another country" : imagining home in the empire
- Housekeeping at sea and on shore : portable domesticity and emigrant transformation
- Performing the voyage out : Victorian female emigration and the gendering of displacement
- The fraudulent family : emigration, colonial return, and the sensational crimes of empire
- "Verily the antipodes of home" : narrating domesticity in the bush
- Portable domesticity and strategic amnesia.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's doctoral thesis--Rice University, 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438427133
- 1438427131
- OCLC:
- 276138488
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