Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art
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- ISBN 9781474433709
- Weight: 393g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2019
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Demonstrates how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination
Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art is the first book to undertake a comprehensive survey of the literature produced by nineteenth-century settler emigration. Arguing that the demographic shift to settler colonies in Canada, Australia, New Zealand was supported and underpinned by a vast outpouring of text, this monograph brings printed emigrants’ letters, manuscript shipboard newspapers and settler fiction into conversation with the works of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Catherine Helen Spence and Ford Madox Brown, amongst others. The monograph demonstrates how the textual cultures of settler emigration pervaded the nineteenth-century cultural imagination and provided authors and artists with a means of interrogating representations of space and place, home-making and colonial encounters.
Key features
First study to make the case for the literature arising from nineteenth-century settler emigration as the distinct genre of ‘emigration literature’Interdisciplinary approach combining literary criticism, art history and cultural geographyStudies canonical authors and artists (Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ford Madox Brown, James Collinson, Richard Redgrave, Abraham Solomon, and Thomas Webster) alongside ephemera, leading to an integrated and comprehensive study of settler culture
Dr Fariha Shaikh is a Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the School of English, Drama, American & Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her research focusses on the complex junctures in the nineteenth century between genre, form and globalisation. Her monograph, published by Edinburgh University Press, explores the relationships between the mobility and materiality of literature in the context of nineteenth-century settler colonialism.
