Antipodal England

Antipodal EnglandExamines Victorian conceptions of home and identity by looking at portrayals and accounts of middle class emigration to Australia. A common subplot in the Victorian novel involves fictional emigrants who disappear into or arrive from the colonies in ways that facilitate plot development but do little to represent the condition of colonial life. Yet the proliferation of emigrant guides and the enthusiastic debates that punctuate Victorian periodicals

Amused at first

Are state LCCs part of

Told through the lively narration of Baree

power and authority

publication and power relations

it proves an entertaining work of fiction that captures the interbellum anxieties permeating European culture in the early twentieth century

Preface by Judith Glatzer Wechsler

The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women

but rather celebrate

improved inmate academic and vocational education

The story follows two men navigating the sins of their fathers to find true love and friendship

This book arose from a conference sponsored by the Fondazione Cassamarca