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Author Treagus, Mandy, author

Title Empire girls : the colonial heroine comes of age / Mandy Treagus, Discipline of English and Creative Writing, the University of Adelaide
Published Adelaide, South Australia : The University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 271 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Oliver Schreiner "The story of an African farm" -- Sara Jeannette Duncan "A daughter of today" -- Henry Handel Richardson "The getting of Wisdom" -- Conclusion: from heroine to hero
Summary Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner - The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan - A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson - The Getting of Wisdom (Australia). All three commence as conventional Bildungsromane, yet the plots of all diverge from the usual narrative structure, as a result of both their colonial origins and the clash between their aspirational heroines and the plots available to them. In an analysis including gender, empire, nation and race, Empire Girls provides new critical perspectives on the ways in which this dominant narrative form from the centre of empire performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting
Analysis south african literature
sara jeanette duncan
australian literature
a daughter of today
kunstlerromanimperialism
mandy treagus
bildungsroman
brithish empire
empire girls
colonial heroine
female protagonist
henry handel richardson
white women's writing
othering
feminism
canadadian literature
olive schreiner
the story of an african farm
the getting of wisdom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271)
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Adelaide Press website; viewed on 2020-04-02)
Subject Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920. Story of an African farm
Duncan, Sara Jeannette, 1861-1922. Daughter of today
Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946. Getting of wisdom
SUBJECT Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 fast
Subject Bildungsromans -- History and criticism.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- Colonies
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Bildungsromans
Women and literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019462938
ISBN 9781922064554
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