Fictions of the Female Self: Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield

Parkin-Gounelas, R.

Women's novels have traditionally been read as 'subjective'. Through an examination of three generations of women's fiction in the post-Romantic period, this book challenges traditional readings of women's novels and argues that fiction writing for women has often been a matter of self-erasure rather than self-inscription. In particular, it examines the changing strategies, sometimes collusive and sometimes rebellious, which Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner and Katherine Mansfield employed in their tentative project of inscribing female subjectivity into the novel and story form.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-10-23

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333523155

DOI: 10.1057/9780230378254

Dimensions: 244cm x170cm

Pages: 203