Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 /

"Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between child...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Moruzi, Kristine (Éditeur intellectuel), Smith, Michelle J., 1979- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Collection:Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Sujets:
Colonies in literature.
Girls in literature.
Girls > Books and reading.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Filles dans la littérature.
Filles > Livres et lecture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Australian & Oceanian.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Colonies in literature
Girls > Books and reading
Girls in literature
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
  • PART I: THEORISING THE COLONIAL GIRL
  • 2. Colonialism: What Girlhoods Can Tell Us; Angela Woollacott
  • 3. Fashioning the Colonial Girl: 'Made in Britain' Femininity in the Imperial Archive; Cecily Devereux
  • PART II: ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE
  • 4.'Explorations in Industry': Careers, Romance, and the Future of the Colonial Australian Girl; Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
  • 5. Deflecting the Marriage Plot: The British and Indigenous Girl in 'Robina Crusoe and Her Lonely Island Home' (1882-1883); Terri Doughty
  • 6.Coming of Age in Colonial India: The Discourse and Debate over the Age of Consummation in the Nineteenth Century; Subhasri Ghosh
  • PART III: RACE AND CLASS
  • 7. 'My blarsted greenstone throne!': Maori Princesses and Nationhood in New Zealand Fiction for Girls; Clare Bradford
  • 8. Black Princesses or Domestic Servants: The Portrayal of Indigenous Australian Girlhood in Colonial Children's Literature; Juliet O'Conor
  • 9. The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town; Sarah Duff
  • PART IV: FICTIONS OF COLONIAL GIRLHOOD
  • 10. The Colonial Girl's Own Papers: Girl Authors, Editors, and Australian Girlhood in Ethel Turner's "Three Little Maids"; Tamara S. Wagner
  • 11. 'I am glad I am Irish through and through and through': Irish Girlhood and Identity in L.T. Meade's "Light O' the Morning; or, The Story of an Irish Girl" (1899); Beth Rodgers
  • 12. Making Space for the Irish Girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish Girls in Fiction at the Turn of the Century; Susan Cahill
  • 13. Education and Work in Service of the Nation: Canadian and Australian Girls' Fiction, 1908-1921; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
  • PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE
  • 14. Picturing Girlhood and Empire: The Guide Movement and Photography; Kristine Alexander
  • 15. Material Girls: Daughters, Dress, and Distance in the Trans-Imperial Family; Laura Ishiguro
  • 16. An Unexpected History Lesson: Meeting European 'Colonial Girls' through Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, and Cups of Tea; Fiona P. McDonald.

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