Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination

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Examines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle-class emigration to Australia.

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
öIntrodction Another English House in Another Country": Imagining Home in the Empire	p. 1
Housekeeping at Sea and on Shore: Portable Domesticity and Emigrant Transformation	p. 17
Performing the Voyage Out: Victorian Female Emigration and the Gendering of Displacement	p. 45
The Fraudulent Family: Emigration, Colonial Return, and the Sensational Crimes of Empire	p. 73
"Verily the Antipodes of Home": Narrating Domesticity in the Bush	p. 113
Conclusion Portable Domesticity and Strategic Amnesia	p. 137
Notes	p. 145
Works Cited	p. 163
Index	p. 171
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