Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism Evolution, Gender and Empire [Hardcover]

Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner, it traces the complex relations between gender and empire in a modernizing world.Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories Giving and Forgiving, Truth and Reconciliation Endnotes Bibliography Index

'...the best single study of the author to appear since her death in 1920.' - Daryl Ogden, Victorian Studies

CAROLYN BURDETT is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of North London.