Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-256) and index.
Contents:
A 'curious political and social experiment' : a settler utopia, feminism, and a Greater Britain in Catherine Helen Spence's Handfasted / Terra Walston Joseph. Unsettled status in Australian settler novels / Dorice Williams Elliott -- Agents of empire and feminist rebels : settlement and gender in Isabella Aylmer's Distant homes and Ellen Ellis's Everything is possible to Will / Kirstine Moffat -- Reconstructing British domesticity on the North American frontier / Linda H. Peterson -- Divided house, divided self : Susanna Moodie's Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages from an eventful life / Mary Ellen Kappler -- For fortune and adventure : representations of emigration in British popular fiction, 1870-1914 / Amy J. Lloyd -- The return and rescue of the âemigrâe in A tale of two cities / John McBratney -- Settling back in at home : impostors and imperial panic in Victorian narratives of return / Tamara S. Wagner -- Surviving black Thursday : the great bushfire of 1851 / Grace Moore -- 'I am but a stranger everywhere' : missionary themes in Charlotte Yonge's New ground and My young Alcides / Susan Walton -- Sad remains : foreclosing settlement in The coral island / Michelle Elleray -- Nineteenth-century female Crusoes : rewriting the Robinsonade for girls / Michelle J. Smith -- 'The freedom suits me' : encouraging girls to settle in the colonies / Kristine Moruzi -- Domestic goddesses on the frontier; or, Tempting the mothers of empire with adventure / Terri Doughty -- A 'curious political and social experiment' : a settler utopia, feminism, and a Greater Britain in Catherine Helen Spence's Handfasted / Terra Walston Joseph.
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