Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire

ISBN-13: 9781108735858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Philip Steer

Opis

A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

Recenzje

'Steer's book is deeply researched and densely argued, but very readable.' Dominic Rainsford, Dickens Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: settler colonialism and metropolitan culture; 1. The transportable pip: liberal character, territory, and the settled subject; 2. Gold and greater Britain: the Australian gold rushes, unsettled desire, and the Global British subject; 3. Speculative utopianism: colonial progress, debt, and Greater Britain; 4. Manning the imperial outpost: the invasion novel, geopolitics, and the borders of Britishness; Conclusion.