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Informationen zum Autor Ann Heilmann is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Mothers of (Feminist) ArtPART 1: FEMININITIES: SARAH GRAND (1854-1943)Chapter 1 Playing with voices/Speaking in Tongues: Journalism and Early NovelsChapter 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
