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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... Tasma's invoke the ocean , but remain less convinced of any potential for a positive outcome . The Penance of Portia James ends with its heroine literally at sea , forever suspended on a shifting tide between England and Australia ...
... Tasma's invoke the ocean , but remain less convinced of any potential for a positive outcome . The Penance of Portia James ends with its heroine literally at sea , forever suspended on a shifting tide between England and Australia ...
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... Tasma's heroines which her novels dramatise , and which has been denied , in turn , to the author . Four of Tasma's six novels treat the problem of a youthful and inexperienced heroine agreeing to marry an apparently unworthy suitor ...
... Tasma's heroines which her novels dramatise , and which has been denied , in turn , to the author . Four of Tasma's six novels treat the problem of a youthful and inexperienced heroine agreeing to marry an apparently unworthy suitor ...
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... Tasma's fiction between sexual and national ideologies " and the " Australianness of her novels is inextricable from their dramatising of " the woman question . " 8 Echoing Desmond Byrne's observation , Harris also notes that Tasma is ...
... Tasma's fiction between sexual and national ideologies " and the " Australianness of her novels is inextricable from their dramatising of " the woman question . " 8 Echoing Desmond Byrne's observation , Harris also notes that Tasma is ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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