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

• 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

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