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Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement

Imagining Empire, 1800-1860

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  • © 2005

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  1. Robert D. Grant
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Curious Consistencies: the Shaping of the Literature of Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 1-18

  3. Exploring Contexts, Marking Boundaries, Charting Parallels

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 19-36

  4. England and America/Dystopian and Utopian

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 37-56

  5. Colonial Promoters: Tactics, Rubrics and Rhetorics

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 57-78

  6. Cash, Convicts and Christianity

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 79-99

  7. Darkest England/Brighter Britain

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 100-123

  8. The ‘Fit and Unfit’, ‘Who Should Go’ and ‘Who Would Be Better to Stay at Home’

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 124-138

  9. ‘A Lady’s Influence’: the Gendering of Colonial/Settler Landscapes

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 139-158

  10. Performative Landscapes

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 159-174

  11. ‘Race is Everything’

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 175-193

  12. Conclusion: Promotion/Nation/Colony/Empire

    • Robert D. Grant
    Pages 194-203

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 204-235
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About this book

This volume explores the complex relationships between early Nineteenth-Century representations of emigration, colonization and settlement, and the social, economic and cultural conditions within which they were produced. It stresses the role of writers, illustrators and artists in 'making' colonial/settler landscapes within the metropolitan imaginary, paying particularly close attention to the complex interdependencies between metropolis and colony, which have too often been reduced to simplistic binaries of centre and periphery, metropolitan core and colonial outpost. Focusing on material dealing with Canada, the Cape, Australia and New Zealand, its interdisciplinarity and global reach consequently adds considerably to the field of colonial studies.

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A rich analysis of the visual and textual representations of colonial spaces that were paraded before the British metropolitan public by travel writers and colonial emigration promoters during the early to mid-nineteenth century. It is based on an impressively extensive reading of primary published sources about Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the USA.

This book serves as an example of how visual and textual analyses can be blended to reveal the grip on metropolitan imaginations that colonial landscapes and peoples could exert during the nineteenth century. As such, I would recommend it to anyone interested in the history of British colonisation.

H-Soz-u-Kult

About the author

ROBERT GRANT is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, UK.

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