Fariha Shaikh

Dados Biográficos

ID6682900
NOMEFariha Shaikh
PRENOMESFariha
SOBRENOMEShaikh
ASSINATURASHAIKH F
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Birmingham
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR7
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2015
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Opium's Imperial Intimacies

    Open AccessFariha ShaikhARTICLEInterventions2026

    This essay traces the literary and cultural registrations of a commodity which was the key to the capitalist expansion of Britain's imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century: opium. Grown in the plantations of Northern India, opium was packed and shipped down the River Ganges to Kolkata. From there, it was smuggled via ship, up through the Pearl River and into China. Opium transformed the Victorian geographical and literary imagination. Unlike…

  • Early Colonial Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Canada

    Fariha ShaikhCHAPTEREdinburgh Companion to British…2024

    This piece examines the crucial role that periodical culture played in fashioning nineteenth-century Canadian identities as they emerged and developed over the course of the century. It focuses on the Montreal-based Literary Garland (1831–1851), edited by the Irish emigrant James Lovell, as one of the leading examples of periodicals that influenced notions of Anglophone ‘Canadian’ identity. It then moves on to argue that the inclusion of content …

  • Catherine Helen Spence’s Autobiography

    Open AccessFariha ShaikhARTICLEJournal of Victorian Culture2022

    This article examines Catherine Helen Spence’s Autobiography through the lens of settler colonial sociability. It argues that Spence strategically depicts associational life in the Autobiography to showcase for her readers a version of organized settler colonial sociability that envisages a role for White, middle-class urban women in the construction and expansion of settler colonial Australia. Spence’s literary and political sociability extends …

  • Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art

    Fariha ShaikhBOOKNineteenth-Century Settler…2018

  • Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art

    Open AccessFariha ShaikhBOOKNineteenth-Century Settler…2018

    Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration in British Literature and Art takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining literary criticism, art history, and cultural geography, to argue that the demographic shift in the nineteenth century to settler colonies in Canada, Australia and New Zealand was also a textual one: a vast literature supported and underpinned this movement of people. Through its five chapters, Nineteenth-Century Settler Emigration b…

  • British Settler Emigration in Print 1832–1877

    Fariha ShaikhARTICLEMedia History2016

    In British Settler Emigration in Print, Jude Piesse reads two key nineteenth-century moments in confluence with each other: the rise of print periodical culture and the surge of mass migration from

  • Before George Eliot

    Fariha ShaikhARTICLEMedia History2015