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Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism

Evolution, Gender and Empire

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  • © 2001

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  1. Carolyn Burdett

    1. School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Women and Progress

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 1-13

  3. Times and Seasons

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 14-45

  4. The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 46-85

  5. Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 86-112

  6. Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 113-135

  7. War Stories

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 136-174

  8. Conclusion: Giving and Forgiving, Truth and Reconciliation

    • Carolyn Burdett
    Pages 175-180

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-232
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About this book

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.

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'...the best single study of the author to appear since her death in 1920.' - Daryl Ogden, Victorian Studies

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London, UK

    Carolyn Burdett

About the author

CAROLYN BURDETT is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London.

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