Representations of British Emigration, Colonisation and Settlement Imagining Empire, 1800-1860

This volume explores the complex relationships between early nineteenth-century representations of emigration, colonization and settlement, and the social, economic and cultural conditions within which they were produced. It stresses the role of writers, illustrators and artists in "making" colonial/settler landscapes within the metropolitan imaginary, paying particularly close attention to the complex interdependencies between metropolis and colony. Focusing on Canada, Australia and New Zealand, its interdisciplinarity and global reach adds considerably to the field of colonial studies.

Robert D. Grant is Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, UK

Introduction: Texts/Contexts * Utopian Outlooks * 'In the Interests and Prosperity of Great Britain': The Business of Emigration * Christianity and Civilisation, Cash, Convicts and Settlers * 'As if Duplicates of his Own Native Land had Risen from the Ocean': Metropolitan Emigration Schemes * Continuities: European Presences in Colonised Landscapes * Discontinuities: Indigenous Presences in Settler Landscapes * 'The Miseries of Barbarism in the Very Centre of Civilisation': Darkest England/Brighter Britain * 'Whether to Go and Whither?' * Gendered Space * The Performative Landscape * Conclusion: Nation/Empire Introduction: Texts/Contexts * Utopian Outlooks * 'In the Interests and Prosperity of Great Britain': The Business of Emigration * Christianity and Civilisation, Cash, Convicts and Settlers * 'As if Duplicates of his Own Native Land had Risen from the Ocean': Metropolitan Emigration Schemes * Continuities: European Presences in Colonised Landscapes * Discontinuities: Indigenous Presences in Settler Landscapes * 'The Miseries of Barbarism in the Very Centre of Civilisation': Darkest England/Brighter Britain * 'Whether to Go and Whither?' * Gendered Space * The Performative Landscape * Conclusion: Nation/Empire