Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875 1914
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 396 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-48439-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
This book is an exploration of popular late-nineteenth-century texts which show Australia - along with Africa, India and the Pacific Islands - to be a preferred site of imperial adventure. Focusing on the period from the advent of the new imperialism in the 1870s to the outbreak of World War I, Robert Dixon looks at a selection of British and Australian writers. Their books, he argues, offer insights into the construction of empire, masculinity, race, and Australian nationhood and identity. Writing the Colonial Adventure shows that the genre of adventure/romance was highly popular throughout this period. The book examines the variety of themes within their narrative form which captured many aspects of imperial ideology. In considering the broader ramifications of these works, Professor Dixon develops a new approach to popular fiction, both for its own sake and as a mode of cultural history.
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Introduction; 1. The romance of property: Rolf Boldrewood and Walter Scott; 2. Outlaws and lawmakers: Boldrewood, Praed and the ethics of adventure; 3. Israel in Egypt: the significance of Australian captivity narratives; 4. Imperial romance: King Solomon's Mines and Australian romance; 5. The new woman and the coming man: gender and genre in the 'lost-race' romance; 6. The other world: Rosa Praed's occult novels; 7. The boundaries of civility: Australia, Asia and the Pacific; 8. Imagined invasions: The Lone Hand and narratives of Asiatic invasion; 9. The colonial city: crime fiction and empire; 10. Beyond adventure: Louis Becke; Conclusion.
