Domesticity, imperialism, and emigration in the Victorian novel
During the 19th century, as British citizens left England for the New Worlds, hearth and home were moved from the heart of the Empire to its outskirts. This volume explores how this affected the ways in which Victorians both promoted and undermined the ideal of the domestic woman.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages)
9780826264107, 9780826214003, 9781417528493, 0826264107, 0826214002, 1417528494
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Introduction: Angels at Home: Contested Sites of Domestic and Imperialistic Ideology
Ch. 1. Storm Cloud over England and Blue Skies in Canada: Industrialization, Empire, and the Pastoral in Gaskell
Ch. 2. "Rogue's Paradise" or Honest Man's Arcady: Anthony Trollope's Australia and the Preservation of Home
Ch. 3. "Nowhere" in New Zealand: Samuel Butler's Erewhonian Women
Ch. 4. American Women and English Angles in Dickens, Reade, Trollope, and Thackeray
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English