Antipodal England
Subtitle: emigration and portable domesticity in the Victorian imagination
By: Janet C. Myers.
Series: SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438427133
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Emigration and immigration in literature; Home in literature; Women in literature; Middle class women -- England; Women immigrants -- Australia; British -- Australia -- Social life and customs; Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Notes: Based on the author's doctoral thesis--Rice University, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Another English house in another country" : imagining home in the empire; title: Housekeeping at sea and on shore : portable domesticity and emigrant transformation; title: Performing the voyage out: Victorian female emigration and the gendering of displacement; title: The fraudulent family : emigration, colonial return, and the sensational crimes of empire; title: "Verily the antipodes of home" : narrating domesticity in the bush; title: Portable domesticity and strategic amnesia.