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Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

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Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English

Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration

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Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration book

Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English
ByTamara S Wagner
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 26 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548289
Pages 296 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315548289
SubjectsLanguage & Literature
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Wagner, T. (2016). Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315548289

In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular fiction into its service. The exportation of characters at the end of a novel indisputably formed a convenient narrative solution that at once mirrored and exaggerated public policies about so-called 'superfluous' or 'redundant' parts of society. Yet the very convenience of such pat endings was increasingly called into question. New starts overseas might not be so easily realizable; emigration destinations failed to live up to the inflated promises of pro-emigration rhetoric; the 'unwanted' might make a surprising reappearance. Wagner juxtaposes representations of emigration in the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Frances Trollope, and Charlotte Yonge with Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian settler fiction by Elizabeth Murray, Clara Cheeseman, and Susanna Moodie, offering a new literary history not just of nineteenth-century migration, but also of transoceanic exchanges and genre formation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |42 pages

Introduction

Failing to Settle in the Victorian Novel

chapter 1|40 pages

Failure into Fiction

Frances Trollope and Susanna Moodie

chapter 2|37 pages

Charles Dickens’s Anti-Emigration Plots

chapter 3|38 pages

Wilkie Collins’s Sensational Returnees

chapter 4|53 pages

No Exotic Ends in Charlotte Yonge

chapter 5|49 pages

Homecoming in Nineteenth-Century Settler Novels

Elizabeth Murray and Clara Cheeseman

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

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