Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement

Imagining Empire, 1800-1860

Robert D. Grant

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2005
• Print ISBN:
  9781403947123
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230510319
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This volume explores the complex relationships between early Nineteenth-Century representations of emigration, colonization and settlement, and the social, economic and cultural conditions within which they were produced. It stresses the role of writers, illustrators and artists in 'making' colonial/settler landscapes within the metropolitan imaginary, paying particularly close attention to the complex interdependencies between metropolis and colony, which have too often been reduced to simplistic binaries of centre and periphery, metropolitan core and colonial outpost. Focusing on material dealing with Canada, the Cape, Australia and New Zealand, its interdisciplinarity and global reach consequently adds considerably to the field of colonial studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Curious Consistencies: the Shaping of the Literature of Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement
• Chapter 2 Exploring Contexts, Marking Boundaries, Charting Parallels
• Chapter 3 England and America/Dystopian and Utopian
• Chapter 4 Colonial Promoters: Tactics, Rubrics and Rhetorics
• Chapter 5 Cash, Convicts and Christianity
• Chapter 6 Darkest England/Brighter Britain
• Chapter 7 The ‘Fit and Unfit’, ‘Who Should Go’ and ‘Who Would Be Better to Stay at Home’
• Chapter 8 ‘A Lady’s Influence’: the Gendering of Colonial/Settler Landscapes
• Chapter 9 Performative Landscapes
• Chapter 10 ‘Race is Everything’
• Conclusion: Promotion/Nation/Colony/Empire
• Bibliography
• Index