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Transported To Botany Bay : Class, National Identity, And The Literary Figure Of The Australian Convict, Dorice Williams Elliott Apr 2019

Transported To Botany Bay : Class, National Identity, And The Literary Figure Of The Australian Convict, Dorice Williams Elliott

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined.

Even as England’s supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the “true” England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for …


The History Of Churches Of Christ In South Australia 1846-1959, H. R. Taylor Jan 1950

The History Of Churches Of Christ In South Australia 1846-1959, H. R. Taylor

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.


The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris Jan 1942

The Harvest Field, Howard L. Schug, Don H. Morris

Stone-Campbell Books

No abstract provided.