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Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner’s The Story of An African Farm (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan’s A Daughter of Today (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson’s The Getting of Wisdom (Australia). All three novels commence as conventional Bildungsromane, yet the plots of all diverge from the usual narrative structure, as a result of both their colonial origins and the clash between their aspirational heroines and the plots available to them. In an analysis including gender, empire, nation and race, Empire Girls provides new critical perspectives on the ways in which this dominant narrative form performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting.
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Keywords
- a daughter of today
- australian literature
- bildungsroman
- brithish empire
- canadadian literature
- colonial heroine
- empire girls
- female protagonist
- Feminism
- henry handel richardson
- Kendal
- kunstlerromanimperialism
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Literary studies: general
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- mandy treagus
- olive schreiner
- othering
- Patriarchy
- sara jeanette duncan
- South African literature
- the getting of wisdom
- the story of an african farm
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- white women's writing