Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender and Empire

Burdett, C.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-01-12

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333615324

DOI: 10.1057/9780230598973

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232