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008			170605s2017 mdu o 00 0 eng d
010			_z 2017009940
020			_a9781421441252
020			_a1421423936
020			_z9781421423920 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020			_z1421423928 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)1008566899
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
043			_ab------ _ae-uk-en
050	0	4	_aPR9082 _b.R83 2017
082	0		_a821/.8099171241 _223
100	1		_aRudy, Jason R., _d1975- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aImagined Homelands _bBritish Poetry in the Colonies / _cJason R. Rudy.
264		1	_bJohns Hopkins University Press,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_a"Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada--often disparaged as derivative and uncouth--should instead be seen as vitally engaged in the social and political work of settlement. The book illuminates cultural pressures that accompanied the unprecedented growth of British emigration across the nineteenth century. It also explores the role of poetry as a mediator between familiar British ideals and new colonial paradigms within emerging literary markets from Sydney and Melbourne to Cape Town and Halifax. Rudy focuses on the work of poets both canonical--including Tennyson, Browning, Longfellow, and Hemans--and relatively obscure, from Adam Lindsay Gordon, Susanna Moodie, and Thomas Pringle to Henry Kendall and Alexander McLachlan. He examines in particular the nostalgic relations between home and abroad, core and periphery, whereby British emigrants used both original compositions and canonical British works to imagine connections between their colonial experiences and the lives they left behind in Europe. Drawing on archival work from four continents, Imagined Homelands insists on a wider geographic frame for nineteenth-century British literature. From lyrics printed in newspapers aboard emigrant ships heading to Australia and South Africa, to ballads circulating in New Zealand and Canadian colonial journals, poetry was a vibrant component of emigrant life. In tracing the histories of these poems and the poets who wrote them, this book provides an alternate account of nineteenth-century British poetry and, more broadly, of settler colonial culture"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aImperialism in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreat Britain _zColonies _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, English, in literature.
650		0	_aColonies in literature.
650		0	_aEnglish poetry _y19th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aCommonwealth poetry (English) _xHistory and criticism.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/56466/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2018 Complete
945			_aProject MUSE - 2018 Literature
999			_c24812 _d24812