Ann Heilmann

New woman strategies

Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent years have seen a rennaissance of scholarly interest in the fin-de-siecle 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780719057595
• ISBN-10: 0719057590
• Artikelnr.: 22057392

Autorenporträt

Ann Heilmann is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: The
Mothers of (Feminist) Art PART 1: FEMININITIES: SARAH GRAND (1854-1943)
Chapter 1 Playing with voices/Speaking in Tongues: Journalism and Early
Novels Chapter 2 Narrative Cross-Dressing: Ideala (1888) and The Heavenly
Twins (1893) Chapter 3 New Woman Jouissances: Subversive Spirits and the
Girl Artist in The Beth Book (1897) PART 2: ALLEGORIES: OLIVE SCHREINER
(1855-1920) Chapter 4 Transitions and Transfigurations: Dreams (1890), The
Story of an African Farm (1883), and From Man to Man (1926) PART 3:
MYTHOLOGIES: MONA CAIRD (1854-1932) Chapter 5: Re-visioning Myths: The
Morality of Marriage (1897), The Pathway of the Gods (1898), and The Stones
of Sacrifice (1915) Chapter 6: Re/Membrance: Mythical Mothers and Art/ists
in One That Wins (1887) and The Daughters of Danaus (1894) Sorties: New
Woman, New Myths? Notes