TY - BOOK ID - 85484774 TI - Settler colonialism in Victorian literature : economics and political identity in the networks of empire PY - 2020 SN - 1108636098 1108695825 1108484425 1108657133 9781108695824 9781108484428 9781108735858 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Colonies in literature. KW - English fiction KW - Commonwealth fiction (English) KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - National characteristics in literature. KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) KW - Commonwealth literature (English) KW - Commonwealth of Nations authors KW - hCommonwealth fiction (English) UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85484774 AB - How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of 'Britishness' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Alongside lesser-known colonial writers such as Catherine Spence and Julius Vogel, British novelists from Dickens to Trollope are also put in a new light by this fresh approach that places Victorian studies in a colonial perspective. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature describes how what it meant to be 'British' was re-imagined in an increasingly globalized world.-- ER -