Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand [Paperback]

Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.Introduction: Victorian Domestic Fiction Down Under, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 1 Retracing Domestic Space: English National Identity in Harriet Martineaus Homes Abroad, Lesa Scholl; Chapter 2 Hasten to the Land of Promise: The Influence of Emigrant Letters on Dickenss Life and Literature, Diana C. Archibald; Chapter 3 Ever So Many Part ings Welded Together: Serial Settlement and Great Expectations, Jude Piesse; Chapter 4 The Heavens Were on Fire: Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home, Grace Moore; Chapter 5 The Australian Girl and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Womens Fiction, Michelle J. Smith; Chapter 6 Fugitive Homes: Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turners Fiction, Tamara S. Wagner; Chapter 7 Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism: the Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc, Susan K. Martin; Chapter 8 Thats What Children are  Nought But Leg-Ropes: Motherhood in Rosa Praeds Mrs Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue; Chapter 9 The Antipodal House Beautiful: Louisa Alice Bakers Colonial Aesthetic, Kirby-Jane Hallum; Chapter 10 Antipodal Home Economics: International Debt and Settler Domesticity in Clara Cheesemans a Rolling Stone, Philip Steer; Chapter 11 What is in the Blood will Come Out: Belonging, Expulsion and the New Zealand Settler Home in Jessie Westons Ko M?ri, Kirstine Moffat;US? Taylor & Francis 2014