British settler emigration in print, 1832-1877 / Jude Piesse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piesse, Jude, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilizing new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, 'British eettler emigration in print, 1832-1877' presents the first book-length study of the periodical print culture that imagined, mediated, and galvanized this important stage of empire history. It presents extensive new research on how settler emigration was registered within Victorian periodicals and situates its focus on British texts and contexts within a broader, transnational framework. The book argues that the Victorian periodical was an inherently mobile form which had an unrivalled capacity to both register mass settler emigration and moderate its disruptive potential. Part one focuses upon settler emigration genres that featured within mainstream, middle-class periodicals, incorporating the analysis of emigrant voyage texts, emigration themed Christmas stories, and serialized novels about settlement. These genres are cohesive, domestic, and reassuring, and thus of a different character from the adventure stories often associated with Victorian empire. Part two examines a feminist and radical periodical emigration literature that often challenged dominant settler ideologies. Alongside its examination of ephemeral emigration texts, the book offers fresh readings of key works by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Martin Wheeler, and others. Ultimately, the book shows how periodical settler emigration literature transforms our understanding of both the culture of Victorian empire and Victorian literature and culture as a whole. It also makes significant intersections into debates about periodical form and the role of digitization within Victorian Studies.

Contents:

Part I Mainstream Imaginings

1 Motion, Migration, and Periodical Form 21

Texts on the Move 21

Producing Mobilities: Dangerous Currents and Safe Channels 27

The Emigrant Voyage in Print 34

2 Dreaming across Oceans: Emigration and Nation at Christmas 48

Emigration in the Frame 58

'The Wreck of the Golden Mary' 62

'Christmas in Australia', or What to Do with Difference? 66

3 Novels of Serial Settlement 81

Serial Settlement in the Newsy Novel 82

'"Evet so Many Partings Welded Together"': Decomposing Great Expectations 95

Part II Countercurrents

4 'Openings without Limit': Feminist Revisions of Settler Emigration 111

Eliza Cook's Fertile Fields: Gender, Class, and Race in Eliza Cook's journal 114

Following Miss Rye's Adventurous Path': Settler Emigration and Liberal Feminism 127

5 Settler Emigration in the Radical Press 143

Countercurrents and the Literature of Refusal 144

Uneasy Utopias: Lawrence Pitkethly's Emigrant Quest 159

Reynolds's Miscellany and the Romance of the West 169.

ISBN:

9780198752967

0198752962

OCLC:

913853259