Domestic fiction in colonial Australia and New England
By: edited by Tamara S. Wagner
Series: Gender and genre -- no. 13; Gender and genre -- no. 13.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781315653884
Subjects: Australian fiction; History and criticism; New Zealand fiction; Women authors; English Domestic fiction; Roman australien; Histoire et critique; Roman néo-zélandais
Notes: Originally published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Retracing domestic space : English national identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes abroad / Lesa Scholl; title: 2. 'Hasten to the land of promise' : the influence of emigrant letters on Dickens's life and literature / Diana C. Archibald; title: 3. 'Ever so many partings welded together' : serial settlement and Great expectations / Jude Piesse; title: 4. 'The heavens were on fire' : incendiarism and the defence of the settler home / Grace Moore; title: 5. The 'Australian girl' and the domestic ideal in colonial women's fiction / Michelle J. Smith; title: 6. Fugitive homes : multiple migrations in Ethel Turner's fiction / Tamara S. Wagner; title: 7. Devout domesticity and extreme Evangelicalism : the unsettled Australian domestic of Maud Jean Franc / Susan K. Martin; title: 8. 'That's what children are : nought but leg-ropes' : motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss / Melissa Purdue; title: 9. The antipodal house beautiful : Louisa Alice Baker's colonial aesthetic / Kirby-Jane Hallum; title: 10. Antipodal home economics : international debt and settler domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A rolling stone / Philip Steer; title: 11. 'What is in the blood will come out' : belonging, expulsion and the New Zealand settler home in Jessie Weston's Ko M©♭ri / Kirstine Moffat.