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New Woman Strategies Ann Heilmann

New Woman Strategies By Ann Heilmann

New Woman Strategies by Ann Heilmann

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Summary

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, Olive Schreiner and Mona Caird.

New Woman Strategies Summary

New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird by Ann Heilmann

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, Olive Schreiner and Mona Caird.

About Ann Heilmann

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

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

NLS9780719057595
9780719057595
0719057590
New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, and Mona Caird by Ann Heilmann
Ann Heilmann
New
Paperback
Manchester University Press
2004-05-13
304
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