Coastal Feelings: Colonizing Affects in Nineteenth-Century Australia
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Michie, Helena | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Joseph, Betty | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Wildenthal, Lora | en_US |
| dc.creator | McCullough, Meredith | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-30T15:53:39Z | en_US |
| dc.date.created | 2024-08 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-06-27 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | August 2024 | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-08-30T15:53:39Z | en_US |
| dc.description | EMBARGO NOTE: This item is embargoed until 2026-08-01 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | My dissertation, “Coastal Feelings: Colonizing Affects in Nineteenth-Century Australia,” produces an affective account of settler colonialism in the context of Australia’s coastal environments. In nineteenth-century Australia, coasts were the first environments to be seen, then settled, by invading British colonists. They remained places not only of encounter but also of connections to England, and were central to the nostalgia and violence of the settler imaginary. Coasts provided settlers with a site for defining themselves against Indigenous peoples, for imagining their new home, and for mourning the home they left behind. I argue for the centrality of affect to the settler colonial project by focusing on textual and visual depictions of coastal environments in nineteenth-century Australia. I find that gender is central to many of these accounts, which coalesce around real and fictional White women. The four chapters of my dissertation take me to four places along the southern Australian coast. Each is an example of a different kind of geographically-inflected discourse. Whether about the shore, islands, a coastal classroom, or a seemingly tranquil bay, each chapter shows how literature captures and creates affective relationships with coastal environments. It is my hope that by naming and understanding the violent colonial imperatives shaping the history of literary coasts we will be able to reexamine our contemporary relationships with coastal environments and reorient them toward justice, inclusion, and ethical littoral living. | en_US |
| dc.embargo.lift | 2026-08-01 | en_US |
| dc.embargo.terms | 2026-08-01 | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | McCullough, Meredith. Coastal Feelings: Colonizing Affects in Nineteenth-Century Australia. (2024). PhD diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/117766 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/117766 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder. | en_US |
| dc.subject | settler colonialism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Australia | en_US |
| dc.subject | nineteenth century | en_US |
| dc.subject | gender | en_US |
| dc.subject | race | en_US |
| dc.subject | affect | en_US |
| dc.subject | environment | en_US |
| dc.title | Coastal Feelings: Colonizing Affects in Nineteenth-Century Australia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.type.material | Text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | English | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Humanities | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Rice University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |