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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... position less in terms of a sud- den shift to marginality than an extension or complication of her existing network of relations . In her essay on the early novel , Jean Dejean identifies a similar pattern of gender difference based on ...
... position less in terms of a sud- den shift to marginality than an extension or complication of her existing network of relations . In her essay on the early novel , Jean Dejean identifies a similar pattern of gender difference based on ...
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... position of tran- scendental non - placement , while drawing attention to the limits implied by that region of stability , they seem to gesture ( often regret- fully ) beyond , to the other side of these limits , to both acceptable and ...
... position of tran- scendental non - placement , while drawing attention to the limits implied by that region of stability , they seem to gesture ( often regret- fully ) beyond , to the other side of these limits , to both acceptable and ...
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... position of colonising " settler ” . Their concluding position of speaking to one another is through unreliable and fitful correspondence ; and this after the narrator has questioned the usefulness of written and spoken language for com ...
... position of colonising " settler ” . Their concluding position of speaking to one another is through unreliable and fitful correspondence ; and this after the narrator has questioned the usefulness of written and spoken language for com ...
Contents
Recovering the heroine | 1 |
Colonial Migration | 9 |
Making a New Space | 23 |
Copyright | |
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