Changing the Victorian Subject

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 readin...

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Other Authors: Tonkin, Maggie (Editor), Treagus, Mandy (Editor), Seys, Madeleine (Editor), Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: University of Adelaide Press 2014
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