在英國的移居世界中，小說能夠跨越廣袤殖民地的隔閡，參與全球性的移居 網絡。本研究將小說放在英國移居型殖民的全球框架下閱讀，以《克拉摩里森》 與《米德爾馬契》爲例來探討兩位女性小說家的作品中異鄉移居現象的迴響。由 此，本文希望將維多利亞時期的寫實主義研究擴展到全球脈絡，特別是針對兩位 女性作家如何將家庭生活的範疇擴展到社群的規模。兩本小說以不同形式展現了 移居想像的核心，也就是大致共享的對移居物質文化的幻想一在其中，對原始 地的想像、農舍神話、以及對物質的反動等三者基本元素共同譜寫出人們對於階 級消弭的社群的展望。我先以《克拉摩里森》來顯現凱薩琳•海倫•史賓賽如何 寄望於新建立的移民社群。在《米德爾馬契》的閱讀中，我則提出移居想像以理 解《米德爾馬契》中的鄉村理想生活如何與移居型殖民相互呼應。追溯至一八二 零及三零年代，《米德爾馬契》具體捕捉到當時對移居型殖民的想像。藉由想像 移居作爲建立鄉村社群的可能性（無論其是否眞的存在於英倫群島），《米德爾馬 契》延續其讀者對於改善社會問題的渴望。

In the British settlement world, fiction participated in the settlement networks across vast colonial divides. This study explores resonances of the settlement imaginary in two female writers5 novels, Clara Morisot and Middle-march, by situating them in a globalized context of British settlement colonization.1 2 In so doing, this paper seeks to contribute to the study of Victorian realism in a globalized context, focusing on how the two female writers enlarged the scope of domesticity into the size of a community. Lying at the core of the settlement imaginary, embodied differently in both novels, is a loosely shared mythologized material culture of settlement, in which the fantasy of the primal land, the mythology of cottages, and a guarded reaction to material abundance orchestrate a vision of a classless community. The reading of Clara Morison aims to show the evidence of the writer Catherine Helen Spence’s unwavering belief in the promise of a newly established settlement community. The reading of Middlemarch shows how the settlement imaginary helps the reader understand how the provincial ideal in Middlemarch resonates with settlement colonization. As the plot of the novel is set in the 1820s and 30s, it captures the tantalizing fantasy of settlement colonization of that time; by imagining emigration as the possibility of creating provincial communities that may or may not exist in the British Isles, it sustains the reader’s longing for a remedy of social problems.