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Author Treagus, Mandy, author
Title Empire Girls : the Colonial Heroine Comes of Age
Publisher University of Adelaide : University of Adelaide Press, June 2014




Description 1 online resource
Series ebook collection (JSTOR Open Access)
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271)
Audience Scholarly & Professional University of Adelaide Press
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
Local Note Unlimited simultaneous user license
Note English
Local Subj -- E-Books
Subject Literature (General)
ISBN 1922064556
9781922064554
1922064548
9781922064547
OCLC # 897578149
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