Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict /

"Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers--from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to ot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Series:	Series in Victorian Studies.
Subjects:	1700-1799 English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism. Exiles in literature. Penal colonies in literature. Prisoners in literature. English fiction. Literature. Australia > In literature. Australia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Dickens and the transported convict
Englishness and the working class in transportation broadsides
Writing convicts and hybrid genres
The transported convict novel
Convict servants and genteel mistresses in women's convict fiction
After transportation : three approaches.