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Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict
- Title
- Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict / Dorice Williams Elliott.
- Author
- Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951-
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xii, 291 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Series in Victorian studies
- Uniform Title
- Series in Victorian Studies.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8140
- ISBN
- 9780821423622
- 0821423622
- LCCN
- 2018058620
- OCLC
- 1051684033
- Author
- Elliott, Dorice Williams, 1951- author.
- Title
- Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict / Dorice Williams Elliott.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Series in Victorian studiesSeries in Victorian Studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8140