Changing the Victorian subject / / edited and introduction by Maggie Tonkin [and three others].
The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Open Access e-Books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Re-visiting the Victorian subject / Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
- 2. Queen Victoria's Aboriginal subjects: a late colonial Australian case study / Amanda Nettelbeck
- 3. Identifying with the frontier: Federation New Woman, Nation and Empire / Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
- 4. A 'Tigress' in the Paradise of Dissent: Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story / Margaret Allen
- 5. The making of Barbara Baynton / Rosemary Moore
- 6. A literary fortune / Megan Brown
- 7. Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man and 'the copy within' / Dorothy Driver
- 8. Guy Boothby's 'Bid for Fortune': constructing an Anglo-Australian colonial identity for the fin-de-siècle London literary marketplace / Ailise Bulfin
- 9. The scenery and dresses of her dreams: reading and reflecting (on) the Victorian heroine in M.E. Braddon's The Doctor's Wife / Madeleine Seys
- 10. The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing / Mandy Treagus
- 11. Miss Wade's torment: the perverse construction of same-sex desire in Little Dorrit / Shale Preston
- 12. 'All the world is blind': unveiling same-sex desire in the poetry of Amy Levy / Carolyn Lake
- 13. From Peter Panic to proto-Modernism: the case of J.M. Barrie / Maggie Tonkin.