Planetary Lives: Edward Warrulan, Edward John Eyre, and Queen Victoria

This article explores the relationship between Victorian and Ngaiwong ways of knowing by bringing a ‘planetary’ framework to bear upon an extraordinary meeting which took place at Buckingham Palace on 26 January 1846. To do so, it invokes the long history of the Antipodes; deploys, modifies and comments upon methodologies for conceiving and analysing ‘world literature’ by Americanist Wai Chee Dimock; and engages with the role of the imagination in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's concept of ‘planetarity’.