Philip Steer
Biographic Data
| ID | 985234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Steer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Steer |
| SIGNATURE | STEER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0728-374X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing The ‘Wooden World’: Periodicals And Settler Environmental Knowledge In Colonial New Zealand
This chapter argues for the value of viewing New Zealand’s colonial periodicals in their role in articulating ideas about the local environment during a time of thoroughgoing transformation that established the baseline of what seemed ‘natural’ for later generations of writers. Surveying writing about woodlands and forests in periodicals during the last quarter of the century promises to reveal the role of these publications in articulating and d…
Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures
Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual's convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century…
The culture of erosion: Settler colonialism, geological agency, and New Zealand literature, 1930s–1950s
The Pākehā (settler) writing that flourished in New Zealand in the middle decades of the twentieth century is often seen as an attempt to ground settler culture in the precolonial earth. Produced at a time when erosion was seen as a pressing national and global environmental crisis, however, this essay argues New Zealand literary culture in fact was suffused with awareness of settlement’s profoundly damaged landscape. Returning to prominent criti…
The historians, the literary critics, and the Victorian settler empire
Victorian literary criticism is yet to fully engage with the new historiography of the 19th‐century settler empire. That body of work has focused attention on a vast transnational network of population, capital, and information exchange, and attending to the centrality of shared ideas of British identity has revealed a uniquely close relationship between cultural and economic forms of imperialism. Significant methodological challenges confront an…
Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies
One of the more memorable anecdotes in Samuel Butler’s autobiographical A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863) occurs during his quest for unclaimed grazing land, when he encounters a fellow
Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism
The Australian gold rushes of the 1850s provide an exemplary test case for exploring the impact of Greater Britain—the settler colonial empire—on the Victorian novel and political economy. British gold diggers' nomadism operated in seeming antithesis to the colonies' explosive growth, which posed a conceptual challenge both to political economy's stadial model of societal development and to liberal narratives of labor and land—narratives that und…
Romances of Uneven Development: Spatiality, Trade, and Form in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Novels
In the late 1880s, around the time he decided to settle on the Samoan island of Upolu, Robert Louis Stevenson's writing began to take a strikingly different shape as he attempted to infuse it with the flavor of his new surroundings. “When Stevenson traveled to the margins of the empire,” John Kucich observes, “he suddenly found new ways of organizing his narratives” (59). His novel-length Pacific works The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894), …
National Pasts and Imperial Futures: Temporality, Economics, and Empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domino 2000 (1889)
Research Article| January 01 2008 National Pasts and Imperial Futures: Temporality, Economics, and Empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domino 2000 (1889) Philip Steer Philip Steer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (1): 49–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719891 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Steer; National Past…
Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism
The Australian gold rushes of the 1850s provide an exemplary test case for exploring the impact of Greater Britain—the settler colonial empire—on the Victorian novel and political economy. British gold diggers' nomadism operated in seeming antithesis to the colonies' explosive growth, which posed a conceptual challenge both to political economy's stadial model of societal development and to liberal narratives of labor and land—narratives that und…
The culture of erosion: Settler colonialism, geological agency, and New Zealand literature, 1930s–1950s
The Pākehā (settler) writing that flourished in New Zealand in the middle decades of the twentieth century is often seen as an attempt to ground settler culture in the precolonial earth. Produced at a time when erosion was seen as a pressing national and global environmental crisis, however, this essay argues New Zealand literary culture in fact was suffused with awareness of settlement’s profoundly damaged landscape. Returning to prominent criti…
The historians, the literary critics, and the Victorian settler empire
Victorian literary criticism is yet to fully engage with the new historiography of the 19th‐century settler empire. That body of work has focused attention on a vast transnational network of population, capital, and information exchange, and attending to the centrality of shared ideas of British identity has revealed a uniquely close relationship between cultural and economic forms of imperialism. Significant methodological challenges confront an…
National Pasts and Imperial Futures: Temporality, Economics, and Empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domino 2000 (1889)
Research Article| January 01 2008 National Pasts and Imperial Futures: Temporality, Economics, and Empire in William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890) and Julius Vogel's Anno Domino 2000 (1889) Philip Steer Philip Steer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2008) 19 (1): 49–72. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719891 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip Steer; National Past…
Romances of Uneven Development: Spatiality, Trade, and Form in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific Novels
In the late 1880s, around the time he decided to settle on the Samoan island of Upolu, Robert Louis Stevenson's writing began to take a strikingly different shape as he attempted to infuse it with the flavor of his new surroundings. “When Stevenson traveled to the margins of the empire,” John Kucich observes, “he suddenly found new ways of organizing his narratives” (59). His novel-length Pacific works The Wrecker (1892) and The Ebb-Tide (1894), …
Gold and Greater Britain: Jevons, Trollope, and Settler Colonialism
The Australian gold rushes of the 1850s provide an exemplary test case for exploring the impact of Greater Britain—the settler colonial empire—on the Victorian novel and political economy. British gold diggers' nomadism operated in seeming antithesis to the colonies' explosive growth, which posed a conceptual challenge both to political economy's stadial model of societal development and to liberal narratives of labor and land—narratives that und…
The historians, the literary critics, and the Victorian settler empire
Victorian literary criticism is yet to fully engage with the new historiography of the 19th‐century settler empire. That body of work has focused attention on a vast transnational network of population, capital, and information exchange, and attending to the centrality of shared ideas of British identity has revealed a uniquely close relationship between cultural and economic forms of imperialism. Significant methodological challenges confront an…
Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies
One of the more memorable anecdotes in Samuel Butler’s autobiographical A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863) occurs during his quest for unclaimed grazing land, when he encounters a fellow
The culture of erosion: Settler colonialism, geological agency, and New Zealand literature, 1930s–1950s
The Pākehā (settler) writing that flourished in New Zealand in the middle decades of the twentieth century is often seen as an attempt to ground settler culture in the precolonial earth. Produced at a time when erosion was seen as a pressing national and global environmental crisis, however, this essay argues New Zealand literary culture in fact was suffused with awareness of settlement’s profoundly damaged landscape. Returning to prominent criti…
Writing The ‘Wooden World’: Periodicals And Settler Environmental Knowledge In Colonial New Zealand
This chapter argues for the value of viewing New Zealand’s colonial periodicals in their role in articulating ideas about the local environment during a time of thoroughgoing transformation that established the baseline of what seemed ‘natural’ for later generations of writers. Surveying writing about woodlands and forests in periodicals during the last quarter of the century promises to reveal the role of these publications in articulating and d…
Uncertain Waters and Irony in Australian Settler Literatures
Critics are increasingly recognizing the presence of irony in environmental cultures, often stressing its ability to highlight disjunctions between the individual's convictions and their compromised behaviors. This article extends this work by taking up the relationship between irony and settler-colonial imaginaries in writings about unpredictable bodies of water. Focusing on settler writing in Australia, the article juxtaposes nineteenth-century…
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