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Domestic fiction in colonial Australia and New England / edited by Tamara S. Wagner.

Contributor(s): Wagner, Tamara S, 1976-Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and genre ; Volume no. 13.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages)ISBN: 9781315653884; 9781317317395; 9781317317401Subject(s): Australian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Australian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism | New Zealand fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism | New Zealand fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticismDDC classification: 820.9994 LOC classification: PR9604.3 | .D66 2016Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
1. Retracing domestic space : English national identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes abroad / Lesa Scholl -- 2. 'Hasten to the land of promise' : the influence of emigrant letters on Dickens's life and literature / Diana C. Archibald -- 3. 'Ever so many partings welded together' : serial settlement and Great expectations / Jude Piesse -- 4. 'The heavens were on fire' : incendiarism and the defence of the settler home / Grace Moore -- 5. The 'Australian girl' and the domestic ideal in colonial women's fiction / Michelle J. Smith -- 6. Fugitive homes : multiple migrations in Ethel Turner's fiction / Tamara S. Wagner -- 7. Devout domesticity and extreme Evangelicalism : the unsettled Australian domestic of Maud Jean Franc / Susan K. Martin -- 8. 'That's what children are : nought but leg-ropes' : motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss / Melissa Purdue -- 9. The antipodal house beautiful : Louisa Alice Baker's colonial aesthetic / Kirby-Jane Hallum -- 10. Antipodal home economics : international debt and settler domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A rolling stone / Philip Steer -- 11. 'What is in the blood will come out' : belonging, expulsion and the New Zealand settler home in Jessie Weston's Ko Meri / Kirstine Moffat.
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First published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-211) and index.

1. Retracing domestic space : English national identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes abroad / Lesa Scholl -- 2. 'Hasten to the land of promise' : the influence of emigrant letters on Dickens's life and literature / Diana C. Archibald -- 3. 'Ever so many partings welded together' : serial settlement and Great expectations / Jude Piesse -- 4. 'The heavens were on fire' : incendiarism and the defence of the settler home / Grace Moore -- 5. The 'Australian girl' and the domestic ideal in colonial women's fiction / Michelle J. Smith -- 6. Fugitive homes : multiple migrations in Ethel Turner's fiction / Tamara S. Wagner -- 7. Devout domesticity and extreme Evangelicalism : the unsettled Australian domestic of Maud Jean Franc / Susan K. Martin -- 8. 'That's what children are : nought but leg-ropes' : motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss / Melissa Purdue -- 9. The antipodal house beautiful : Louisa Alice Baker's colonial aesthetic / Kirby-Jane Hallum -- 10. Antipodal home economics : international debt and settler domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A rolling stone / Philip Steer -- 11. 'What is in the blood will come out' : belonging, expulsion and the New Zealand settler home in Jessie Weston's Ko Meri / Kirstine Moffat.

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