Antipodal England : emigration and portable domesticity in the Victorian imagination /
Myers, Janet C.,1969-
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2009.
Based on the author's doctoral thesis--Rice University, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-169) and index.
"Another English house in another country" : imagining home in the empire -- Housekeeping at sea and on shore : portable domesticity and emigrant transformation -- Performing the voyage out : Victorian female emigration and the gendering of displacement -- The fraudulent family : emigration, colonial return, and the sensational crimes of empire -- "Verily the antipodes of home" : narrating domesticity in the bush -- Portable domesticity and strategic amnesia.
English literature
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Home in literature.
Women in literature.
Middle class women
Women immigrants
British