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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157834703321

Autore

Piesse Jude

Titolo

British settler emigration in print, 1832-1877 / / Jude Piesse [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-181443-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Disciplina

820.93526912

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration in literature

Imperialism in literature

Great Britain - Emigration and immigration - History - 19th century

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Great Britain Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Great Britain

Grossbritannien

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

An unprecedented number of emigrants left Britain to settle in America, Australia, Canada and New Zealand during the Victorian period. Utilising new digital resources and methodologies alongside more traditional modes of scholarship, this work examines the periodical print culture that imagined, mediated and galvanised this important stage of empire history. It presents extensive new research on how settler emigration was registered within Victorian periodicals and situates its focus on British texts and contexts within a broader, transnational framework, arguing that the Victorian periodical was an inherently mobile form which had an unrivalled capacity to both register mass settler emigration and moderate its disruptive potential.