The Victorian Colonial Romance with the Antipodes [electronic resource] /
Blythe, H.author.
This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Meridian of the Antipodes: A Shadowy Resting Place for the Imagination; 1 The Victorian Sublunary Heaven: Emigration and Tom Arnold's "Antipodistic" Romance; 2 "Looking Yonderly": Mary Taylor's Miss Miles or A Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago (1890); 3 Antipodal Effervescence: Robert Browning, Alfred Domett, and Ranolf and Amohia;  A South-Sea Day-Dream (1872); 4 Crossings or the Swinging Door: Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range (1872)
5 Barbarous Benevolence: Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period (1882) and Australia and New Zealand (1873)Afterword: Shadows a Moving Man Cannot Catch; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
British literature.
Islands of the Pacific—History.
History, Modern.
Literature—Philosophy.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
British and Irish Literature.
Australasian History.
Modern History.
Literary Theory.