Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 is out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/…/settler-fiction-from-the… Many thanks to the series editors Patricia Matthew and Manu Samriti Chander, and everyone at OUP (especially Jack and Tara). Special thanks to Christian Thompson (https://www.instagram.com/christianthompsonartist) for permission to use his amazing photograph on…
Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis, “The Fugitive Lives of David Stuurman”, Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances, ed Elleke Boehmer and Katherine Collins (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 239-56. Focusing on the plural and fragmented lives of the Indigenous Khoi resistance leader David Stuurman, this chapter…
Porscha Fermanis, ‘Scientific Periodicals, Numerical Inscriptions, and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia’, Victorian Periodicals Review 56, no. 4 (2023): 538-67. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937150/figure/fig03 Abstract: Focusing on scientific periodicals produced in nineteenth-century Southeast Asia, this article considers the representational significance of numerical inscriptions in ethnographic accounts of the Orang Asli…
My review of Anna Johnston’s important new book, The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770-1870 (Cambridge, 2023), was recently published online in the Journal of Australian Studies. In the review, I argue that Johnston’s book ‘reveals in impressive archival detail the complex processes by which data is transformed…
The Cambridge Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s edited by John Gardner and David Stewart has just been published. Congratulations to John and David! Porscha Fermanis has written a chapter in the collection entitled ‘Suffering, Sentiment, and the Rise of Humanitarian Literature in the 1830s’. The chapter focusses on…
The Oxford Handbook of Romantic Prose, edited by Robert Morrison, has just been published. Congratulations to Robert and all the contributors! Porscha Fermanis has a chapter in the Handbook on ‘Latin America’. The chapter explores three key ideas about Latin America in nineteenth-century British prose writing: first, the medievalisation…
Congratulations to former SouthHem postdoctoral fellow, Sarah Galletly, on her new publication, co-authored with Katherine Bode and Carol Hetherington: ‘Beyond Britain and the Book: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Novel Unbound/ed’, in The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, ed. by David Carter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 44-62….
My review of Nikki Hessell’s wonderful book, Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry (SUNY Press, 2021), has recently been published in Studies in Romanticism 62, no. 2 (2023), 320-325. In the review I note that Hessell’s ‘carefully argued book represents not just a new way of…
Karen Wade and Porscha Fermanis, ‘Reading Across Colonies: Fiction Holdings and Circulating Libraries in the British Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1870’, Book History 26, no. 1 (2023): 71-112. This study analyzes the fiction holdings of thirty library catalogues from twenty-three discrete circulating libraries in colonial Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,…
Porscha Fermanis has recently published two keyword essays on ‘Emigration’ and ‘Surveillance’ in the collection Remediating the 1820s, edited by Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022). On the southern hemisphere, see also Lara Atkin’s chapter ‘(Re)settling Poetry: The Culture of Reprinting and the Poetics…