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Imperial objects : essays on Victorian women's emigration and the unauthorized imperial experience / edited by Rita S. Kranidis.

Other author/creatorKranidis, Rita S.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1998.
Descriptionxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents '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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.
LCCN 97031199
ISBN0805716270 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JV6347 .I47 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold