Victorian Settler Narratives

Tamara S. Wagner

Introduction: Narrating Domestic Portability: Emigration, Domesticity and Genre Formation, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 1 Unsettled Status in Australian Settler Novels, Dorice Williams Elliott; Chapter 2 Agents of Empire and Feminist Rebels: Settlement and Gender in Isabella Aylmer’s Distant Homes and Ellen Ellis’s Everything is Possible to Will, Kirstine Moffat; Chapter 3 Reconstructing British Domesticity on the North American Frontier, Linda H. Peterson; Chapter 4 Divided House, Divided Self: Susanna Moodie’s Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages From an Eventful Life, Mary Ellen Kappler; Chapter 5 For Fortune and Adventure: Representations of Emigration in British Popular Fiction, 1870–1914, Amy J. Lloyd; Chapter 6 The Return and Rescue of the Émigré in a Tale of Two Cities, John McBratney; Chapter 7 Settling Back in at Home: Impostors and Imperial Panic in Victorian Narratives of Return, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 8 Surviving Black Thursday: The Great Bushfire of 1851, Grace Moore; Chapter 9 ‘I am but a Stranger everywhere’: Missionary Themes in Charlotte Yonge’s New Ground and My Young Alcides, Susan Walton; Chapter 10 Sad Remains: Foreclosing Settlement in the Coral Island, Michelle Elleray; Chapter 11 Nineteenth-Century Female Crusoes: Rewriting the Robinsonade for Girls, Michelle J. Smith; Chapter 12 ‘The Freedom Suits Me’: Encouraging Girls to Settle in the Colonies, Kristine Moruzi; Chapter 13 Domestic Goddesses on the Frontier; or, Tempting the Mothers of Empire with Adventure, Terri Doughty; Chapter 14 A ‘Curious Political and Social Experiment’: A Settler Utopia, Feminism and a Greater Britain in Catherine Helen Spence’s Handfasted, Terra Walston Joseph;