Introduction : the nineteenth-century pacific rim victorian transoceanic studies beyond the postcolonial matrix

• Main Author: Wagner, Tamara Silvia
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106947; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25228; http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1060150314000527
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Victorians’ driving interest in exploration and expansion is perhaps one of the best-known scholarly truisms about the age and its literature. While the British Empire was rapidly expanding and commercial competition began to stretch across the globe with a newly perceived urgency, Victorians at...