Changing the Victorian Subject

Changing the Victorian Subject

edited and Introduction by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa



FREE | 2014 | Ebook (PDF) | 978-1-922064-74-5 | 292 pp

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    1. Re-visiting the Victorian subject
    Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
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    2. Queen Victoria’s Aboriginal subjects: a late colonial Australian case study
    Amanda Nettelbeck
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    3. Identifying with the frontier: Federation New Woman, Nation and Empire
    Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
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    4. A ‘Tigress' in the Paradise of Dissent: Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story
    Margaret Allen
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    5. The making of Barbara Baynton
    Rosemary Moore
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    6. A literary fortune
    Megan Brown
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    7. Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man and ‘the copy within’
    Dorothy Driver
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    8. Guy Boothby’s 'Bid for Fortune': constructing an Anglo-Australian colonial identity for the ´Ú¾±²Ô-»å±ð-²õ¾±Ã¨³¦±ô±ð London literary marketplace
    Ailise Bulfin
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    9. The scenery and dresses of her dreams: reading and reflecting (on) the Victorian heroine in M.E. Braddon’s The Doctor’s Wife
    Madeleine Seys
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    10. The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing
    Mandy Treagus
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    11. Miss Wade’s torment: the perverse construction of same-sex desire in Little Dorrit
    Shale Preston
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    12. 'All the world is blind': unveiling same-sex desire in the poetry of Amy Levy
    Carolyn Lake
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    13. From 'Peter Panic' to proto-Modernism: the case of J.M. Barrie
    Maggie Tonkin
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The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readings of key metropolitan texts and their repositioning within literary history. These essays work to recognise the plurality of the rubric of the 'Victorian' and to expand how the category of Victorian studies can be understood.