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

Burdett, C.

 
9780333615324: Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender and Empire

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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