{"product_id":"transported-to-botany-bay-9780821423622","title":"Transported to Botany Bay","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn analyzing depictions of Australian convicts in novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Dorice Williams Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this nuanced study of literature by and about convicts in the nineteenth century, Dorice Williams Elliott makes a major contribution to the fields of Victorian studies and Australian literature. She paints a vivid and fascinating picture of convict life and how it was perceived in Australia and Britain that will be useful to academics, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates.”\u003cbr\u003e“By bringing Australian and British literary treatments of convict transportation into one frame, \u003ci\u003eTransported to Botany Bay\u003c\/i\u003e invigorates the burgeoning scholarship on the transnational dimensions of Victorian literature. Elliott ranges far beyond the usual texts that dominate the discussion of Australia in Victorian studies, most notably in juxtaposing novelistic treatments with the corpus of transportation broadsides, thus helpfully broadening our critical horizons.”","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406003741015,"sku":"9780821423622","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780821423622.jpg?v=1730494205","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/transported-to-botany-bay-9780821423622","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}