{"product_id":"empire-girls-mandy-treagus-9781922064547","title":"Empire Girls: the colonial heroine comes of age","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mandy Treagus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922064548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922064547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Adelaide Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Mandy Treagus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44920005460223,"sku":"9781922064547","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f51a2a16-47d3-49eb-9f4b-6783169cd50d.jpg?v=1710359954","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/empire-girls-mandy-treagus-9781922064547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}