Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English
Victorian Narratives of Failed Emigration: Settlers, Returnees, and Nineteenth-Century Literature in English
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维多利亚时代失败移民的叙述:定居者、回归者和十九世纪英语文学
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2016
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T. Wagner
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scholarship and worldviews is disappointing. For this reason, Dark Paradise reads more like a survey of various British-Oceanic texts written for new scholars than a sustained and rigorous argument for an advanced audience. Such an approach to Oceania lends itself better to an anthology—see, for example, Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg’s excellent Oceania in the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible (2013), or, more foundationally, Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, and Nicholas Thomas’s Exploration & Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680–1900 (2000)—than a monograph. Dark Paradise, nonetheless, is laudable in its attempt to expand Victorian studies scholars’ understanding of the diversity and merit of the Victorian-Oceanic literary tradition. Chris J. Thomas Indiana University, Bloomington