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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Page 108
... bush is in part similar to the better- known account of the landscape's " weird melancholy " made famous by Marcus Clarke in 1876 , with the publication of his preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift . As the narrator ...
... bush is in part similar to the better- known account of the landscape's " weird melancholy " made famous by Marcus Clarke in 1876 , with the publication of his preface to Adam Lindsay Gordon's Sea Spray and Smoke Drift . As the narrator ...
Page 143
... bush settings , Praed differs in finding in the bush enough that is accommodating and protective to be a major source of attraction in itself to her women characters . This is true of a number of secondary heroines , including Ning in ...
... bush settings , Praed differs in finding in the bush enough that is accommodating and protective to be a major source of attraction in itself to her women characters . This is true of a number of secondary heroines , including Ning in ...
Page 146
... bush , since this , too , is culturally appropriated to represent the basis of a cultural differ- ence between nationalist and loyalist Australians . Instead Bridget must extend her quest through the bush , to the Never - Never , which ...
... bush , since this , too , is culturally appropriated to represent the basis of a cultural differ- ence between nationalist and loyalist Australians . Instead Bridget must extend her quest through the bush , to the Never - Never , which ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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