Author : C. Burdett
Release : 2001-01-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism by : C. Burdett
Download or read book Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism written by C. Burdett. This book was released on 2001-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.