Imagined Homelands : British Poetry in the Colonies /

"Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada--often di...

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Main Author: Rudy, Jason R., 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Unsettling Colonial Poetry
  • 1. Floating Worlds: Poetry and the Voyage Out
  • 2. Colonial Authenticity: Circulation, Sentiment, Adaptation
  • 3. Sounding Colonial: Dialect, Song, and the Scottish Diaspora
  • 4. Native Poetry: Forms of Indigeneity in the Colonies
  • 5. Colonial Laureates: Navigating Settler Culture
  • 6. The Poetry of Greater Britain: Race and Nationhood at Centuryâ#x80;#x99;s End
  • Conclusion: Genres of Belonging
  • Appendix A. Colonial Ship Journals
  • Appendix B. Timeline of British Colonial Poetry
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.