| Description |
xxxvi, 470 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Oxford world's classics |
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Summary |
Stella Courtland's transformation from an independent girl with a passion for the writings of Goethe, Heine, and Kant, to a married woman, hemmed in by social constraints, is the subject of Catherine Martin's novel of 1890. An exploration of the fate of an Australian 'New Woman', the novel is also steeped in questions of Australian identity. Martin not only satirizes and scrutinizes colonial hierarchies, but she also anticipates Australia's nationhood and the values of a new generation. A journalist and essayist as well as a novelist, Catherine Martin was fascinated by the question of what 'Australianness' might be at a time when Australia was breaking away from its status as a British colony, and, through the story of Stella's painful growth to maturity, she paints a vivid picture of this turning-point in Australian history |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references p. (xxxv) - xxxvi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [xxxv]-xxxvi) |
| Subject |
Married women -- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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Social control -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 19th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012475 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Nettelbeck, Amanda.
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Tulloch, Graham, 1947-
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| LC no. |
98041802 |
| ISBN |
0192839225 |
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