Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-century AustraliaThe deliberate exclusion of women's romances resulted in the development of an Australian culture based on a masculine bush ethos. In recovering previously neglected women's texts, Giles argues for a more inclusive and heterogeneous view. |
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... Space The novels discussed in this book trace the disappearance of the heroine less in terms of her neglect by literary historians and critics than as a condition of her enjambement within each narrative . The heroine draws attention to ...
... Space The novels discussed in this book trace the disappearance of the heroine less in terms of her neglect by literary historians and critics than as a condition of her enjambement within each narrative . The heroine draws attention to ...
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... space for fulfilment than on the pre- sentation of its experience in an identifiable place . In this sense , Praed's novel is , again , closer to Martin's , particularly given the use of the landscape by Stella to accommodate difference ...
... space for fulfilment than on the pre- sentation of its experience in an identifiable place . In this sense , Praed's novel is , again , closer to Martin's , particularly given the use of the landscape by Stella to accommodate difference ...
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... space is inhabited by those who " practice the art of being in between , ” it is itself a mediating region for place ( which is culturally specified ) , and space ( which is identified with nature and transcendence ) . Praed then ...
... space is inhabited by those who " practice the art of being in between , ” it is itself a mediating region for place ( which is culturally specified ) , and space ( which is identified with nature and transcendence ) . Praed then ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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