Domesticity, imperialism, and emigration in the Victorian novel
By: Diana C. Archibald.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Home in literature; United States -- In literature
Description: "During the nineteenth century, as millions of British citizens left for the New Worlds, hearth and home were physically moved from the heart of the empire to its very outskirts. In Domesticity, Imperialism, and Emigration in the Victorian Novel, Diana Archibald explores how such demographic shifts affected the ways in which Victorians both promoted and undermined the ideal of the domestic woman.

Drawing upon works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Samuel Butler, Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, and William Makepeace Thackeray, the author shows how the ideals of womanhood and home promoted by domestic ideology in many ways conflict with the argument in favor of immigration to imperial destinations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION Angels at Home: Contested Sites of Domestic and Imperialistic Ideology; title: -CHAPTER 1 : Storm Cloud over England and Blue Skies in Canada: Industrialization, Empire, and the Pastoral in Gaskell; title: -CHAPTER 2 : "Rogue's Paradise" or Honest Man's Arcady: Anthony Trollope's Australia and the Preservation of Home; title: -CHAPTER 3 : "Nowhere" in New Zealand: Samuel Butler's Erewhonian Women; title: -CHAPTER 4 : American Women and English Angels in Dickens, Reade, Trollope, and Thackeray; title: Conclusion.