Title Settler romances and the Australian girl / Tanya Dalziell

Published Crawley, W.A. : UWA Press, 2004

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Description 178 pages : illustrations ; 21cm Contents Introduction: Encountering fictive Europeans -- Ch. 1. Ethnographic desires and Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush -- Ch. 2. Haunted economies: J.D. Hennessey's An Australia Bush Track and the 'native' gift -- Ch. 3. Unsettling sympathetic women: Katherine Langloh Parker and Catehrine Martin's An Australian Girl -- Ch. 4. Colonial displacements: My Brilliant Career, A Comedy in Spasms and The Penance of Portia James Summary Incisive readings of popular late 19th and early 20th century settler adventure romance unmask a deep-seated anxiety about the stability of concepts of whiteness and femininity in colonial Australia. It considers in detail Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and Catherine Martin's An Australian Girl Analysis Australien Roman Kolonialismus Frau Geschlechterrolle Geschichte 1880-1910 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 161-172 Subject Women in literature -- Australia. Race awareness -- Australia -- 19th century. Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. Women in literature -- History and criticism. Literature and anthropology. Sex role in literature -- Australia -- History and criticism. Australian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Australia -- History -- 19th century. Adventure stories, Australian -- History and criticism. Romance fiction -- History and criticism. Adventure stories -- History and criticism. Whites -- Race identity -- Australia. Women and literature -- Australia. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. Women pioneers in literature. Social classes in literature. Sex role in literature. Race in literature. Australian fiction -- History and criticism. Women in literature. Genre/Form Action and adventure fiction. Australian fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc. Author University of Western Australia. LC no. 2004281126 ISBN 192069420X paperback

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