Olive Schreiner and The Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the 19th century about the position of women and 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 fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, the book traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modern world.
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"...the best single study of the author to appear since her death in 1920."--Daryl Ogden, Victorian Studies
"Burdett puts Schreiner's work into their full contexts, reading with precision, coherence, and generosity and providing an emotionally and intellectually vigorous portrait."-- Choice
"Burdett puts Schreiner's work into their full contexts, reading with precision, coherence, and generosity and providing an emotionally and intellectually vigorous portrait."-- Choice
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Carolyn Burdett is Principal Lecturer in English, University of North London.
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By the time Olive Schreiner was twenty, she had almost completed her first novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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South Africa, Cape Colony, Peter Halket, Trooper Peter, Chartered Company, First Principles, Havelock Ellis, Jameson Raid, Karl Pearson, Afrikaner Bond, Albert Blair, Bonaparte Blenkins, Edward Carpenter, Napoleon Bonaparte, The Stor, African Farin, Gregory Rose, Jan Smuts, Afiican Farm, Cecil Rhodes, Max Weber, Samuel Cronwright, Stephen Gray, Tant Sannie, University College New!
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By the time Olive Schreiner was twenty, she had almost completed her first novel. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pastoral genre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Cape Colony, Peter Halket, Trooper Peter, Chartered Company, First Principles, Havelock Ellis, Jameson Raid, Karl Pearson, Afrikaner Bond, Albert Blair, Bonaparte Blenkins, Edward Carpenter, Napoleon Bonaparte, The Stor, African Farin, Gregory Rose, Jan Smuts, Afiican Farm, Cecil Rhodes, Max Weber, Samuel Cronwright, Stephen Gray, Tant Sannie, University College New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner on 12 pages
- From Man to Man by Olive Schreiner on 11 pages
- Olive Schreiner by Ruth First on 7 pages
- First Principles by Herbert Spencer on 7 pages
- The Story of an African Farm (Oxford World's Classics) by Olive Schreiner on 4 pages
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- The Language Of The Eyes: Science, Sexuality, And Female Vision In English Literature And Culture, 1690-1927 (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) by Daryl Ogden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 by Morag Shiach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Victorian Supernatural (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Nicola Bown in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age by Theodore M. Porter in Back Matter
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