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Victorian Literature and Culture
vol.
43
no.
2
June
2015
10702203
2015
periodical issue
'The Victorians’ driving interest in exploration and expansion is perhaps one of the best-known scholarly truisms about the age and its literature. While the British Empire was rapidly expanding and commercial competition began to stretch across the globe with a newly perceived urgency, Victorians at home throughout this expanding empire were at once fascinated and anxious in reading about the wider world. Armchair explorers might have confined themselves to a vicarious enjoyment of the gold-nuggets that seem to lay scattered throughout the expanding settler world, of adventures in an excitingly exoticised “bush,” and of shipwrecks and dubious impostors who sometimes seemed to return from the middle of nowhere...' (Publication introduction)
2015 pg. 235-259
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Victorian Literature and Culture
vol.
43
no.
2
June
2015
10702203
2015
periodical issue
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- Damned Whores and God's Police : The Colonization of Women in Australia 1975 single work non-fiction