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New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain
Leeanne M. Richardson
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Description for New Woman and Colonial Adventure Fiction in Victorian Britain
In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and colonial adventure stories competed for the sympathies of their readers. While one form questions a system that proclaims male superiority and the right to dominate others, the second celebrates British male victories over ""savage"" landscapes, animals, and people. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, works cited, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Cultural concerns about gender and empire converge in striking and unexpected ways in two popular novel forms of late-Victorian Great Britain. In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and colonial adventure stories competed for the sympathies of their readers. While one form questions a system that proclaims male superiority and the right to dominate others, the second celebrates British male victories over ""savage"" landscapes, animals, and people. Despite their differences, the author argues, one subgenre is the twin star of the other: each revolves around the other, affected by the other's gravitational pull, as well as by the ... Read more
Cultural concerns about gender and empire converge in striking and unexpected ways in two popular novel forms of late-Victorian Great Britain. In the 1880s and 1890s, feminist New Woman fiction and colonial adventure stories competed for the sympathies of their readers. While one form questions a system that proclaims male superiority and the right to dominate others, the second celebrates British male victories over ""savage"" landscapes, animals, and people. Despite their differences, the author argues, one subgenre is the twin star of the other: each revolves around the other, affected by the other's gravitational pull, as well as by the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813029443
SKU
V9780813029443
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About Leeanne M. Richardson
LeeAnne M. Richardson is assistant professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta.
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