Literature in a time of migration : British fiction and the movement of people, 1815-1876 / Josephine McDonagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonagh, Josephine, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration in literature.

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

English fiction.

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

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Literature in a Time of Migration' offers a profound rethinking of British fiction in light of the new practices of human mobility that reshaped the nineteenth-century world. Building on the growing critical engagement with globalization in literary studies, it confronts the paradox that at a time when transnational human movement occurred globally on an unprecedented scale, British fiction appeared to turn inward to tell stories of local places that valorized stability and rootedness.

Contents:

Cover

Literature in a Time of Migration: British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction: Fiction in a Time of Migration

'An Age of Increased Mobility'

'Mov[e]able Types' and the World of Print

Malthusian Displacements

The Contiguous Imagination

The Country, the City, the World

Literature in a Time of Migration

Part One: Experiments in Fiction and Space, 1810s to 1840s

Chapter 1: Walter Scott's Long-Distance Fiction: Guy Mannering and the Gypsy

Scott's Eccentric Characters and the Origins of Gypsies

Two Kinds of Feelings for Place: Being at Home and Being in Exile

The Geographical Imaginary in Guy Mannering: A Way of Reading

A World of Print

The Afterlife of Meg Merrilies: Bishop Heber's Narrative of a Journey (1828)

Chapter 2: John Galt's 'Whole Art of Colonization' Sound, Voice, Space

Introduction

John Galt, Regional Novelist

'Tales of the West': Theoretical Histories

'A Gude Scotch Tongue': Voice and Power

How to Listen: The Steam-Boat(1821)

Galt Goes to Canada

The 'Bandana' Essays and the Founding of Guelph

The Sound of Colonization

Native Sounds: 'American Traditions' and 'Canadian Sketches'

Silence in Another Key: 'The Seamstress'

Chapter 3: Transported!: Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Charlotte Brontë Imagine a Colony

Abduction!

Systematic Colonization

Glass Town

Chapter 4: 'Infinite Kindness': Distant Intimacy in the Transatlantic Print Worlds of Mary Russell Mitford and James T. Fields

Our Village

The Transatlantic Village

Part Two: The Mid-Century Novel

Chapter 5: The Political Picaresque: Thomas Martin Wheeler's Sunshine and Shadow

To Move or Not to Move?

Miniaturization and Enlargement: The Scales of the Chartist Land Plan.

Reading Sunshine and Shadow

'A Light in the Gloom'

Chapter 6: Dickens's National Novel: On Settling and Being Unsettled in Bleak House

On the Doorstep

Unsettled in the Law

The Law of Settlement and the Production of National Space

Moveable Memories and Emigrants' Tokens

Locality

Chapter 7: George Eliot's Provincial Novels': Another Great Migration' in Daniel Deronda

Emigration in the 1860s and 1870s

An Anglo-SaxonWorld

Daniel Deronda: The Hebraization of Anglo-Saxonia

'Daniel Went On Without a Pause': Comparative Kineticism, Henry Maine, and 'The Prophecy of Daniel'

Conclusion: Moving On: 'Amy Foster' and' Uncompromising Exile'

Select Bibliography

Pre-1900 Sources

Official Papers

Newspapers Pre-1900

Other Published Sources Pre-1900

Post-1900 Sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (page [297]-332) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-264886-1

0-19-191631-5

0-19-264885-3

OCLC:

1249473505