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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... male members of the family . " 37 ― A class of male free settlers must also have been reluctant colonisers , yet relative to their female counterparts it is probable that they had greater social and political power , and were presented ...
... male members of the family . " 37 ― A class of male free settlers must also have been reluctant colonisers , yet relative to their female counterparts it is probable that they had greater social and political power , and were presented ...
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... male classical - realist fiction . That the male characters particularly those with authority are often satirised by a feminine narrator , may further explain the resisting masculine reader . Yet there are also romantic , idealised ...
... male classical - realist fiction . That the male characters particularly those with authority are often satirised by a feminine narrator , may further explain the resisting masculine reader . Yet there are also romantic , idealised ...
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... male who , through a kind of communion with nature by default , achieves a higher plane of expe- rience with other solitary males , also alone in nature , Praed provides this model with the marginally more hopeful dimension of feminine ...
... male who , through a kind of communion with nature by default , achieves a higher plane of expe- rience with other solitary males , also alone in nature , Praed provides this model with the marginally more hopeful dimension of feminine ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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