Empire girls the colonial heroine comes of age
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 Get...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Adelaide, South Australia
The University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide Press
2014, [2014]
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 271 pages |
| ISBN: | 192206470X 1922064696 1922064556 1922064548 |