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  1. Transported to Botany Bay
    class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict
    Author: Elliott, Dorice Williams
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio

    "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... more

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    "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 others who were themselves convicts--used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England's supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the 'true' England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn't fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people's sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780821423622
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Series: Series in Victorian studies
    Subjects: Strafgefangener; Literatur; Exil; Strafkolonie; Englisch
    Other subjects: English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Exiles in literature; Prisoners in literature; Penal colonies in literature; Australia / In literature; English fiction; Exiles in literature; Literature; Penal colonies in literature; Prisoners in literature; Australia; 1700-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xii, 291 Seiten, Notenbeispiele, 24 cm
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    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
  2. Transported to Botany Bay
    class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict
    Author: Elliott, Dorice Williams
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens

    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 --... more

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    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. "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 others who were themselves convicts--used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England's supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the 'true' England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn't fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people's sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780821423622
    Series: Series in Victorian studies
    Subjects: English fiction; Exiles in literature; Prisoners in literature; Penal colonies in literature
    Scope: xii, 291 Seiten
  3. Transported to Botany Bay
    class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict
    Author: Elliott, Dorice Williams
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Ohio University Press, Athens

    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 --... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    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. "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 others who were themselves convicts--used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England's supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the 'true' England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn't fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people's sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780821423622
    Series: Series in Victorian studies
    Subjects: English fiction; Exiles in literature; Prisoners in literature; Penal colonies in literature
    Scope: xii, 291 Seiten