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'Colonial domestic literature has been largely overlooked and is due for a reassessment. This essay collection explores attitudes to colonialism, imperialism and race, as well as important developments in girlhood and the concept of the New Woman.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
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'The Heavens Were on Fire' : Incendiarism and the Defence of the Settler Home,
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criticism
'Drawing on Anthony Trollope's novella Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874), alongside more neglected material including Mary Fortune's 'Waif Wanderer' [sic] articles for the Australian Journal and J.S. Borlase's 'Twelve Miles Broad' (1885), this chapter analyses the threat posed to the home by the arsonist and the ways in which literary representations demonized the 'fire bug'. This piece also considers how fiction mediates emotional responses to fire, such as trauma and hatred, while exploring how literary representations of arsonists channelled deep-rooted anxieties about the precariousness of settler life and the vulnerability of the bush homestead. I pay particular attention to the gender and racial politics of firelighting as well as firefighting and to ways in which fictional stories of fire sought to assert the security of the (often vulnerable) homestead even as it is endangered by the appearance of an outsider.' (p.63)
- The 'Australian Girl' and the Domestic Ideal in Colonial Women's Fiction, single work criticism (p. 75-90)
- Fugitive Homes : Multiple Migrations in Ethel Turner's Fiction, single work criticism (p. 91-110)
- Devout Domesticity and Extreme Evangelicalism : The Unsettled Australian Domestic of Maud Jean Franc, single work criticism (p. 111-124)
- 'That's What Children Are–Nought but Leg Ropes' : Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss, single work criticism (p. 125-134)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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[Review] Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , July vol. 39 no. 2 2015; (p. 274-275)
— Review of Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand 2014 multi chapter work criticism
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[Review] Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , July vol. 39 no. 2 2015; (p. 274-275)
— Review of Domestic Fiction in Colonial Australia and New Zealand 2014 multi chapter work criticism