Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration
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anti-emigration literature
Author_Tamara S Wagner
British Empire fiction
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Colonial Settler Culture
Dead Man
Domestic Gothic
Emigration Propaganda
Emigration Societies
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failed emigration in Victorian novels
Family Colonisation Loan Society
Family Emigration
Martin Chuzzlewit
Middle Class Emigration
Mrs Jellyby
Narrative Delay
Nineteenth Century British Fiction
Nineteenth Century Literature
nineteenth-century migration
return migration analysis
settler colonial narratives
Settler Fiction
Settler World
Settler Writing
Thriving City
Tichborne Claimant
Transatlantic Emigration
transoceanic literary studies
Vice Versa
Victorian Popular
Victorian Popular Culture
Victorian Popular Imagination
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781472467065
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jun 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.
Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
