Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender and Empire

ISBN-13: 9780333615324 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str.

Carolyn Burdett

Opis

Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, it traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modernizing world.

Recenzje

'...the best single study of the author to appear since her death in 1920.' - Daryl Ogden, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories Giving and Forgiving, Truth and Reconciliation Endnotes Bibliography Index

O autorze

CAROLYN BURDETT is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London.