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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Seeking the Common Place | 33 |
An Unapproachable Elevation | 55 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Too Far Everywhere: The Romantic Heroine in Nineteenth-century Australia UQP studies in Australian literature |
| Author | Fiona Giles |
| Publisher | University of Queensland Press, 1998 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 27 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0702228699, 9780702228698 |
| Length | 236 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / General Fiction / Romance / General Literary Criticism / Women Authors |
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