Victorian narratives of failed emigration : settlers, returnees, and nineteenth-century literature in English /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagner, Tamara S., 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2016]
Subjects:	English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Commonwealth fiction (English) > 19th century > History and criticism. Emigration and immigration in literature. Immigrants in literature. Boundaries in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: failing to settle in the Victorian novel
Failure into fiction: Frances Trollope and Susanna Moodie
Charles Dickens's anti-emigration plots
Wilkie Collins's sensational returnees
No exotic ends in Charlotte Yonge
Homecoming in nineteenth-century settler novels: Elizabeth Murray and Clara Cheeseman
Conclusion.