Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art

ISBN-13: 9781474433693 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str.

Fariha Shaikh

Opis

Explores how the textual output of settler emigration shapes the nineteenth-century literary and artistic imagination

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Printed Emigrants’ Letters: Networks of Affect and Authenticity; 2. Emigrant Shipboard Newspapers: Provisional Settlement at Sea; 3. Fragmentary Aesthetics: Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill in the Canadian Bush; 4. Emigration Paintings: Visual Texts and Mobility; 5. Emigration Aesthetics: Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and Catherine Helen Spence; Conclusion: Structures of Mobility; Bibliography.