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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816031003321

Autore

Archibald Diana C

Titolo

Domesticity, imperialism, and emigration in the Victorian novel / / Diana C. Archibald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8262-6410-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Disciplina

823/.809355

Soggetti

Colonies in literature

Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism

Emigration and immigration in literature

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Home in literature

Imperialism in literature

United States In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION Angels at Home: Contested Sites of Domestic and Imperialistic Ideology -- CHAPTER 1 : Storm Cloud over England and Blue Skies in Canada: Industrialization, Empire, and the Pastoral in Gaskell -- CHAPTER 2 : "Rogue's Paradise" or Honest Man's Arcady: Anthony Trollope's Australia and the Preservation of Home -- CHAPTER 3 : "Nowhere" in New Zealand: Samuel Butler's Erewhonian Women -- CHAPTER 4 : American Women and English Angels in Dickens, Reade, Trollope, and Thackeray -- Conclusion.