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Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890.
- 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:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780198905974
- OCLC:
- 1591828093
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