Robert Dixon

Writing the Colonial Adventure

Race, Gender and Nation in Anglo-Australian Popular Fiction, 1875-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores imperial ideology through the narrative themes of popular texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521484398
• ISBN-10: 0521484391
• Artikelnr.: 27007212

Autorenporträt

Robert Dixon was the Foundation Director of the Pastoral Research Office of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference. He is a Life Member of the Association of Practical Theology in Oceania and an Honorary Research Fellow at Catholic Theological College in the University of Divinity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The romance of property: Rolf Boldrewood and Walter Scott
2. Outlaws and lawmakers: Boldrewood, Praed and the ethics of adventure
3. Israel in Egypt: the significance of Australian captivity narratives
4. Imperial romance: King Solomon's Mines and Australian romance
5. The new woman and the coming man: gender and genre in the 'lost-race' romance
6. The other world: Rosa Praed's occult novels
7. The boundaries of civility: Australia, Asia and the Pacific
8. Imagined invasions: The Lone Hand and narratives of Asiatic invasion
9. The colonial city: crime fiction and empire
10. Beyond adventure: Louis Becke
Conclusion.