New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona CairdRecent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siécle fiction of the New Woman. New Woman Strategies offers a new approach to the subject by focusing on the discursive strategies and revisionist aesthetics of the genre in the writings of three of its key exponents: Sarah Grand (1854-1943), Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) and Mona Caird (1854-1932). The study explores how each writer drew on, mimicked, feminized and ultimately transformed traditional literary and cultural tropes and paradigms: feminity, allegory and mythology. |
Contents
the mothers of feminist art | 1 |
Sarah Grand 18541943 | 11 |
Olive Schreiner 18551920 | 117 |
Mona Caird 18541932 | 155 |
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New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird Ann Heilmann No preview available - 2004 |
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