Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement: Imagining Empire, 1800-1860

Grant, Robert D.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2005-11-08

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349524150

DOI: 10.1057/9780230510319

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 235