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    Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age

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    Author(s)
    Treagus, Mandy
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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’s The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom (Australia). All three novels 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 performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33182
    Keywords
    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; Kendal; Patriarchy
    DOI
    10.20851/empire-girls
    Publisher
    University of Adelaide Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/
    Publication date and place
    2014
    Classification
    Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
    Pages
    280
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Bildungsroman - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildungsroman; Feminism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism; Kendal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendal; Patriarchy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy; The Getting of Wisdom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Getting_of_Wisdom
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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