Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism

Evolution, Gender and Empire

• Author(s): C. Burdett,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 232
• ISBN_10: 0230598978
  ISBN_13: 9780230598973
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, it traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modernizing world.