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Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fermanis, Porscha.
Series:
Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures Series
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (515 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.
Summary:
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrates how such writing disrupts the idea of settlement as a stationary, permanent, or stable condition.
Contents:
Cover
Dedication
Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction : Southern Mobilities
Space and Place
Southern Imaginaries
Mobile Fictions and Settler Nationalism
Settler Nationalism and Imagined Noncommunities
Racial Scalarity and Whiteness Studies
Settler Aesthetics
Geofictions and Biofictions
PART I : GEOFICTIONS
1 : Red Coat Romance
Settler Militarism and Defensive Colonialism
Military Romance and Settler Manhood
Small Wars and Savage Warfare
In the Shadow of Mutiny
Testing Trust
2 : Australasia Unbound
Melbourne, Melodrama, and Trans-TasmanMobility
Vagabondage and the 'Unsexing' of the Colonial Melodrama
A Tale of Two Sentiments: The Convict Taint Across the Tasman
Travelling Tales from the 'Shadow Side'
Settler Nationalism and the Australasian Canon
3 : Social Problems and Spatial Fixes
Urban Frontiers
Savage White Children
Temperate White Women
Poor Whites
PART II : BIOFICTIONS
4 : Queer White Settlers
Fit and Unfit Settlers
Queer Irish
Passing Whites
White Traitors
White Recuperation
5 : Bad Romance
Queer Indigenous Bodies
Romancing Docile Bodies
Captive Love
The Romance of Extinction
Queering the Imperial Romance
6 : White Utopias
Settler Utopianism and the 'Savage Slot'
Savage Africa
Over the Range
Nephites and Lamanites
From (Utopian) Romance to (Utopian) Realism
Epilogue : Settler Endgame
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index.
Notes:
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ISBN:
9780198905974
OCLC:
1591828093

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