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Author Heilmann, Ann.

Title New woman strategies : Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird / Ann Heilmann.

Imprint Manchester ; New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.8099287 H363ne 2004    ---  Available
Description xii, 292 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The m/others of (feminist) art -- I: Femininities: Sarah Grand (1854-1943) -- 1. Playing with voices/speaking in tongues: journalism and early novels -- 2. Narrative cross-dressing: Ideala (1888) and The heavenly twins (1893) -- 3. New woman jouissances: subversive spirits and the girl artist in The Beth book (1897) -- II: Allegories: Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) -- 4. Transitions and transfigurations: Dreams (1890), The story of an African farm (1883) and From man to man (1926) -- III: Mythologies: Mona Caird (1854-1932) -- 5. Re-visioning myths: The morality of marriage (1897), The pathway of the Gods (1898) and The stones of sacrifice (1915) -- 6. Re/membrance: mythical mothers and art/ists in One that wins (1887) and The daughters of Danaus (1894) -- Sorties: new women, new myths?
Subject Grand, Sarah -- Criticism and interpretation.
Schreiner, Olive, 1855-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Caird, Mona -- Criticism and interpretation.
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, English -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History.
ISBN 0719057590 (pbk.)
0719057582
9780719057588
9780719057595 (pbk.)
Standard No. YDXCP 100351945
YDXCP 100357852
NZ1 8877132

 
    
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