1st Edition
Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English
By Tamara S Wagner
Copyright 2016
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as an important counter-current to a pervasive emigration propaganda machine that was pressing popular... Read more
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Biography
Tamara S. Wagner is Associate Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
