04333oam 22006734a 450 991052488990332120230524180608.01-4214-2393-6(CKB)4340000000188729(OCoLC)1008566899(MdBmJHUP)muse60476(Au-PeEL)EBL4862707(CaPaEBR)ebr11460948(MiAaPQ)EBC4862707(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89015(EXLCZ)99434000000018872920170605d2017 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImagined HomelandsBritish Poetry in the Colonies /Jason R. RudyJohns Hopkins University Press2017Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2017.©2017.1 online resource1-4214-4125-X 1-4214-2392-8 Includes bibliographical references and index."Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada--often disparaged as derivative and uncouth--should instead be seen as vitally engaged in the social and political work of settlement. The book illuminates cultural pressures that accompanied the unprecedented growth of British emigration across the nineteenth century. It also explores the role of poetry as a mediator between familiar British ideals and new colonial paradigms within emerging literary markets from Sydney and Melbourne to Cape Town and Halifax. Rudy focuses on the work of poets both canonical--including Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, and Hemans--and relatively obscure, from Adam Lindsay Gordon, Susanna Moodie, and Thomas Pringle to Henry Kendall and Alexander McLachlan. He examines in particular the nostalgic relations between home and abroad, core and periphery, whereby British emigrants used both original compositions and canonical British works to imagine connections between their colonial experiences and the lives they left behind in Europe. Drawing on archival work from four continents, Imagined Homelands insists on a wider geographic frame for nineteenth-century British literature. From lyrics printed in newspapers aboard emigrant ships heading to Australia and South Africa, to ballads circulating in New Zealand and Canadian colonial journals, poetry was a vibrant component of emigrant life. In tracing the histories of these poems and the poets who wrote them, this book provides an alternate account of nineteenth-century British poetry and, more broadly, of settler colonial culture"--Provided by publisher.LITERARY CRITICISM / PoetrybisacshLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshbisacshLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & TheorybisacshImperialism in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainColoniesHistory19th centuryNational characteristics, English, in literatureColonies in literatureEnglish poetry19th centuryHistory and criticismCommonwealth poetry (English)History and criticismLiterary studies: c 1800 to c 1900LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.Imperialism in literature.Literature and societyHistoryNational characteristics, English, in literature.Colonies in literature.English poetryHistory and criticism.Commonwealth poetry (English)History and criticism.821/.8099171241LIT006000LIT004120LIT014000bisacshRudy Jason R.1975-1167488MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524889903321Imagined Homelands2719542UNINA