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White Settlers/Big City : Mimicry and the Metropolis in Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 White Settlers/Big City : Mimicry and the Metropolis in Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
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The article examines the representation of colonial metropolitan and suburban Melbourne in Hume's novel. The author argues that the novel 'changes the way the white colony of Australia could be imagined, or romanced, at the imperial center' (129).

Notes

  • 'This essay is expanded from an MLA session [Kipperman] chaired on Australian colonial literature in 2004' (136).

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 22 no. 2 December 2008 Z1556943 2008 periodical issue 2008 pg. 129-136
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  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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