Olive Schreiner

This study discusses the range of Olive Schreiner's work, including her novels, The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth.

Info autore

Carolyn Burdett is Senior Lecturer in English and Victorian Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender, Empire (2001), co-editor of The Victorian Supernatural (2004), and editor of the online journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Riassunto

This study discusses the range of Olive Schreiner's work, including her novels, The Story of an African Farm, Undine, and From Man to Man; her feminist tract Woman and Labour and short fictions and allegories about the position of women; and her diverse writings about South Africa, her country of birth.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Carolyn Burdett
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780746310939
• ISBN: 978-0-7463-1093-9
• Pagine: 120
• Serie: Writers and Their Work; Writers and Their Work
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata