{"product_id":"empire-girls-the-colonial-heroine-comes-of-age-paperback","title":"Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMandy Treagus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dominant form of the nineteenth-century novel was the \u003cem\u003eBildungsroman\u003c\/em\u003e, a story of an individual's development that came to speak more widely of the aspirations of nineteenth-century British society. Some of the most famous examples -- \u003cem\u003eDavid Copperfield\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e -- validated the world from which they sprang, in which even orphans could successfully make their way. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eEmpire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age\u003c\/em\u003e is a critical examination of three novels by writers from different regions of the British Empire: Olive Schreiner's \u003cem\u003eThe Story of An African Farm\u003c\/em\u003e (South Africa), Sara Jeannette Duncan's \u003cem\u003eA Daughter of Today\u003c\/em\u003e (Canada) and Henry Handel Richardson's \u003cem\u003eThe Getting of Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e(Australia). All three novels commence as conventional \u003cem\u003eBildungsromane\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eEmpire Girls\u003c\/em\u003e provides new critical perspectives on the ways in which this dominant narrative form performs very differently when taken out of its metropolitan setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776368640288,"sku":"9781922064547","price":35.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6327c7b681742a45c5499dbd17e09dc6.webp?v=1780478242","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/empire-girls-the-colonial-heroine-comes-of-age-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}