Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English

ISBN-13: 9780367881153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Tamara S. Wagner

Opis

Arguing that failure, the threat of failure, and even a curious desire to fail in the attempt to emigrate drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways, Tamara S. Wagner offers a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation. She highlight

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O autorze

Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.