Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 (eBook)
XV, 265 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-35635-2 (ISBN)
Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge, Canada Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Australia Susan Cahill, Concordia University, Canada Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta, Canada Terri Doughty, Vancouver Island University, Canada S.E. Duff, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne, Australia Subhasri Ghosh, independent scholar, USA Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia, Canada Fiona P. McDonald, UCL, UK Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, Australia Juliet O'Conor, Deakin University, Australia Beth Rodgers, Aberystwyth University, UK Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia Tamara S. Wagner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rachael Weaver, University of Melbourne, Australia Angela Woollacott, Australian National University, Australia
Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood.
Kristine Alexander, University of Lethbridge, Canada Clare Bradford, Deakin University, Australia Susan Cahill, Concordia University, Canada Cecily Devereux, University of Alberta, Canada Terri Doughty, Vancouver Island University, Canada S.E. Duff, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne, Australia Subhasri Ghosh, independent scholar, USA Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia, Canada Fiona P. McDonald, UCL, UK Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, Australia Juliet O'Conor, Deakin University, Australia Beth Rodgers, Aberystwyth University, UK Michelle J. Smith, Deakin University, Australia Tamara S. Wagner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Rachael Weaver, University of Melbourne, Australia Angela Woollacott, Australian National University, Australia.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith PART I: THEORISING THE COLONIAL GIRL 2. Colonialism: What Girlhoods Can Tell Us; Angela Woollacott 3. Fashioning the Colonial Girl: 'Made in Britain' Femininity in the Imperial Archive; Cecily Devereux PART II: ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE 4. 'Explorations in Industry': Careers, Romance, and the Future of the Colonial Australian Girl; Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver 5. Deflecting the Marriage Plot: The British and Indigenous Girl in 'Robina Crusoe and Her Lonely Island Home' (1882-1883); Terri Doughty 6. Coming of Age in Colonial India: The Discourse and Debate over the Age of Consummation in the Nineteenth Century; Subhasri Ghosh PART III: RACE AND CLASS 7. 'My blarsted greenstone throne!': M?ori Princesses and Nationhood in New Zealand Fiction for Girls; Clare Bradford 8. Black Princesses or Domestic Servants: The Portrayal of Indigenous Australian Girlhood in Colonial Children's Literature; Juliet O'Conor 9. The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town; S. E. Duff PART IV: FICTIONS OF COLONIAL GIRLHOOD 10. The Colonial Girl's Own Papers: Girl Authors, Editors, and Australian Girlhood in Ethel Turner's Three Little Maids ; Tamara S. Wagner 11. 'I am glad I am Irish through and through and through': Irish Girlhood and Identity in L.T. Meade's Light O' the Morning; or, The Story of an Irish Girl (1899); Beth Rodgers 12. Making Space for the Irish Girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish Girls in Fiction at the Turn of the Century; Susan Cahill 13. Education and Work in Service of the Nation: Canadian and Australian Girls' Fiction, 1908-1921; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE 14. Picturing Girlhood and Empire: The Guide Movement and Photography; Kristine Alexander 15. Material Girls: Daughters, Dress, and Distance in the Trans-Imperial Family; Laura Ishiguro 16. An Unexpected History Lesson: Meeting European 'Colonial Girls' through Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, and Cups of Tea; Fiona P. McDonald Bibliography Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.8.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
Zusatzinfo | XV, 265 p. |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
Schlagworte | Canada • Culture • English literature • Fiction • Great Britain • Identity • space |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-35635-9 / 1137356359 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-35635-2 / 9781137356352 |
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