Victorian settler narratives : emigrants, cosmopolitans and returnees in nineteenth-century literature

 Content: Introduction : Narrating domestic portability : emigration, domesticity and genre formation / Tamara S. Wagner --
 Unsettled status in Australian settler novels / Dorice Williams Elliott --
 Agents of empire and feminist rebels : settlement and gender in Isabella Aylmer's Distant homes and Ellen Ellis's Everything is possible to Will / Kirstine Moffat --
 Reconstructing British domesticity on the North American frontier / Linda H. Peterson --
 Divided house, divided self : Susanna Moodie's Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages from an eventful life / Mary Ellen Kappler --
 For fortune and adventure : representations of emigration in British popular fiction, 1870-1914 / Amy J. Lloyd --
 The return and rescue of the émigré in A tale of two cities / John McBratney --
 Settling back in at home : impostors and imperial panic in Victorian narratives of return / Tamara S. Wagner --
 Surviving black Thursday : the great bushfire of 1851 / Grace Moore --
 'I am but a stranger everywhere' : missionary themes in Charlotte Yonge's New ground and My young Alcides / Susan Walton --
 Sad remains : foreclosing settlement in The coral island / Michelle Elleray --
 Nineteenth-century female Crusoes : rewriting the Robinsonade for girls / Michelle J. Smith --
 'The freedom suits me' : encouraging girls to settle in the colonies / Kristine Moruzi --
 Domestic goddesses on the frontier; or, Tempting the mothers of empire with adventure / Terri Doughty --
 A 'curious political and social experiment' : a settler utopia, feminism, and a Greater Britain in Catherine Helen Spence's Handfasted / Terra Walston Joseph.