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Books & Edited Collections
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature argues that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of 'Britishness' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature places Victorian studies in a colonial perspective, and describes how what it meant to be 'British' was re-imagined in an increasingly globalized world.
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Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature argues that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over questions of British identity. Each chapter highlights the conceptual challenges to the nature of 'Britishness' posed by colonial events, from the gold rushes to invasion scares, and traces the literary aftershocks in familiar genres such as the bildungsroman and the utopia. Bringing together literary formalism and British World history, Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature places Victorian studies in a colonial perspective, and describes how what it meant to be 'British' was re-imagined in an increasingly globalized world.
Cambridge University Press
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Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. Co-edited with Nathan K. Hensley (Fordham University Press, 2018)
Ecological Form is about how we might think about the nineteenth century—about how we need to do so—as we come to terms with a damaged and seemingly diminished present. The collection's eleven essays aim to show how one Anthropocene first emerged into visibility in the nineteenth century. Together these interventions aim to demonstrate the diligence and acuity with which certain Victorian writers experimented with new formal techniques, and generated new models for thinking, in order to comprehend the two massively networked and often violent global systems that organized their experience, and that, we suggest, continue to organize ours: the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution’s carbon economy.
Fordham University Press
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Ecological Form is about how we might think about the nineteenth century—about how we need to do so—as we come to terms with a damaged and seemingly diminished present. The collection's eleven essays aim to show how one Anthropocene first emerged into visibility in the nineteenth century. Together these interventions aim to demonstrate the diligence and acuity with which certain Victorian writers experimented with new formal techniques, and generated new models for thinking, in order to comprehend the two massively networked and often violent global systems that organized their experience, and that, we suggest, continue to organize ours: the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution’s carbon economy.
Fordham University Press
Amazon
Book Depository
Select Articles & Essays
“Introduction: Ecological Formalism, or, Love in the Ruins.” With Nathan K. Hensley. Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. Co-edited with Nathan K. Hensley. Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. 1-17.
“Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal.” With Nathan K. Hensley. Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. Co-edited with Nathan K. Hensley. Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. 63-82.
“Modernism and Māoritanga: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people.” Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present. Ed. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 277-294.
"The Historians, the Literary Critics, and the Victorian Settler Empire." Literature Compass 15.5 (2018).
"On Systematic Colonization and the Culture of Settler Colonialism: Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s A Letter from Sydney (1829).” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History.
Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism.” Victorian Studies 58.3 (2016): 436-463.
“The Romance of Uneven Development: Geography, Capitalism, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Globalized Pacific.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015): 343-356.
“Colonial Ecologies: Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira and Writing the Settled Environment.” A History of New Zealand Literature. Ed. Mark Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 83-97.
“Colonial Gothic Fiction.” The World Novel Until 1950. Ed. Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 253-267.
“Figures from the Past: Sargeson’s Lonely Men and the Limits of Nationalism.” Journal of New Zealand Studies NS13 (2012): 34-45.
“Signatures of the Carboniferous: The Literary Forms of Coal.” With Nathan K. Hensley. Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire. Co-edited with Nathan K. Hensley. Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. 63-82.
“Modernism and Māoritanga: Re-Reading the Cultural Politics of Modernist Appropriation in the bone people.” Modernism, Postcolonialism, and Globalism: Anglophone Literature, 1950 to the Present. Ed. Richard Begam and Michael Valdez Moses. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 277-294.
"The Historians, the Literary Critics, and the Victorian Settler Empire." Literature Compass 15.5 (2018).
"On Systematic Colonization and the Culture of Settler Colonialism: Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s A Letter from Sydney (1829).” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History.
Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism.” Victorian Studies 58.3 (2016): 436-463.
“The Romance of Uneven Development: Geography, Capitalism, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Globalized Pacific.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43.2 (2015): 343-356.
“Colonial Ecologies: Guthrie-Smith’s Tutira and Writing the Settled Environment.” A History of New Zealand Literature. Ed. Mark Williams. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 83-97.
“Colonial Gothic Fiction.” The World Novel Until 1950. Ed. Ralph Crane, Jane Stafford, and Mark Williams. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 253-267.
“Figures from the Past: Sargeson’s Lonely Men and the Limits of Nationalism.” Journal of New Zealand Studies NS13 (2012): 34-45.
Public Writing
"The forgotten environmental crisis: how 20th century settler writers foreshadowed the Anthropocene." The Conversation. Published 4 December 2020.
"Reading classic novels in an era of climate change." The Conversation. Published 22 May 2017.
"Bottom of the lake: How the setting for a classic book of New Zealand literature became a toxic swamp." The Spinoff. Published 19 April 2017.
"Reading classic novels in an era of climate change." The Conversation. Published 22 May 2017.
"Bottom of the lake: How the setting for a classic book of New Zealand literature became a toxic swamp." The Spinoff. Published 19 April 2017.