The Story of an African Farm (Broadview Literary Texts) - Softcover

Schreiner, Olive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551112868 ISBN 13: 9781551112862

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2003

Synopsis

The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society’s emerging New Woman. The novel follows the spiritual quests of Lyndall and Waldo, who each struggle against social constraints in their search for happiness and truth: Lyndall, against society’s expectations of women, and Waldo against stifling class conventions. Written from the margins of the British empire, the novel addresses the conflicts of race, class, and gender that shaped the lives of European settlers in Southern Africa before the Boer Wars.

This Broadview edition includes appendices that link the novel to histories of empire and colonialism, the emergence of the New Woman, and the conflicts between science and religion in the Victorian period. Contemporary reviews are also included.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia O’Neill is a Professor of English at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.

Review

“This excellent edition of The Story of an African Farm allows us to read the novel in its important social, political, and literary contexts. Along with its thorough overview of the novel’s place in turn-of-the-century views on gender and race, the text’s introduction contributes a long-overdue focus on Schreiner and Victorian political economy. Readers will value the extensive appendices, which allow us to see the novel not only as an innovative narrative but also as a key intervention in social, political, and religious debates that affected Britain and its empire. This edition is an important achievement.” ― Paula M. Krebs, Wheaton College

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1551112868
• ISBN 13: 9781551112862
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 366
• Editor: O'Neill Patricia