Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian conv...
Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian conv...
Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict / Dorice Williams Elliott.
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Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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H 2021/3132
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English
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Physical content
xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Dickens and the transported convict -- Englishness and the working class in transportation broadsides -- Writing convicts and hybrid genres -- The transported convict novel -- Convict servants and genteel mistresses in women's convict fiction -- After transportation : three approaches.
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Publisher
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]
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Ohio
Date Published
[2019]
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"Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers--from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts--used the figure of t...
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Transported to Botany Bay : class, national identity, and the literary figure of the Australian convict / Dorice Williams Elliott.
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Series in Victorian studies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-283) and index.
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H 2021/3132
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74VKaR6JEzjO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaR6JEzjO
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0821423622
9780821423622
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823/.509
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991024390609502626
