Imperial objects
Imperial objects: essays on Victorian women's emigration and the unauthorized imperial experience
edited by Rita S. Kranidis
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers ; c1998.
ISBN: 0805716270
DDC: 304.820820941
LCC: JV6347
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.
'Who will help the girls?": Maria Rye and Victorian juvenile
emigration to Canada, 1869-1895 / Rita S. Kranidis -- Recycling the
poor and fallen: emigration politics and the narrative resolutions of
Mary Barton and David CopperfieId / Shannon Russell -- "Waste not,
want not": even redundant women have their uses / Carmen Faymonville
-- Without artificial constraint: gentility and British gentlewomen
in rural Australia / Emma Floyd -- The return of the native: Hardy's
Arabella, agency, and abjection / Michele Ren -- Maria Rye's journey:
metropolitan and colonial perceptions of female emigration / Marion
Diamond -- "Out of their natural station": empire and empowerment in
the emigration of 1ower-middle-class women / A. James Hammerton --
"The Visible horizon bounds their wishes": seclusion and society in
Fanny de la Barca₂s postcolonial Mexico / Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe --
"An act of severe duty": emigration and class ideology in Susanna
Moodie's Roughing it in the bush / Sherrie A. Inness -- A theosophist
in India / Mark Bevir -- Angel in the bush: exporting domesticity
through female emigration / Diana C. Archibald -- A one-way ticket?
emigration and the colonies in the works of Charlotte M. Yonge /
Catharine J. Vaughan-Pow.
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