Worlding the South

Sarah Comyn is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow at University College DublinPorscha Fermanis is Professor of Romantic Literature at University College Dublin

'...exceptionally rich and critically wide-ranging...'Romance, Revolution and Reform

• Introduction: southern worlds, globes, and spheres – Sarah Comyn and Porscha FermanisI World/Globe1 Making, mapping, and unmaking worlds: globes, panoramas, fictions, and oceans – Peter Otto2 Southern doubles: antipodean life as a comparative exercise – Sarah Comyn3 Lag fever, flash men, and late fashionable worlds – Clara Tuite4 Spatial synchronicities: settler emigration, the voyage out, and shipboard literary production – Fariha Shaikh5 Augustus Earle’s pedestrian tour in New Zealand: or, get off the beach – Ingrid Horrocks6 Australia to Paraguay: race, class, and poetry in a South American colony – Jason Rudy, Aaron Bartlett, Lindsey O’Neil, and Justin ThompsonII Acculturation/Transculturation7 ‘The renowned Crusoe in the native costume of our adopted country’: reading Robinson Crusoe in colonial New Zealand – Jane Stafford8 The transnational kangaroo hunt – Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver9 ‘Then came the high unpromising forests, and miles of loneliness’: Louisa Atkinson’s recasting of the Australian landscape – Grace Moore10 Mapping the way forward: Thomas Baines on expedition to the coronation of Cetshwayo kaMpande, Zululand, 1873 – Lindy Stiebel11 ‘Wild, desert and lawless countries’: William Burchell’s Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa – Matthew Shum12 Short stories of the southern seas: the island as collective in the works of Louis Becke – Jennifer FullerIII Indigenous/Diasporic13 ‘That’s white fellow’s talk you know, missis’: wordlists, songs, and knowledge production on the colonial Australian frontier – Anna Johnston14 Kiro’s thoughts about England: an unexpected text in an unexpected place – Michelle Elleray15 Mokena and Macaulay: cultural geographies of poetry in colonial Aotearoa – Nikki Hessell16 Vigilance: petitions, politics, and the African Christian converts of the nineteenth century – Hlonipha Mokoena17 Reading indigeneity in nineteenth-century British Guiana – Manu Samriti Chander18 ‘Some Genuine Chinese Authors’: literary appreciation, comparatism, and universalism in the Straits Chinese Magazine – Porscha FermanisThe south in the world – Elleke BoehmerIndex