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Fictions of the Female Self

Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield

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  • © 1991

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  1. Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-30

  3. Charlotte Brontë: The Quick of Her Nature

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    Pages 31-52

  4. Charlotte Brontë and the Imagination: A Secret and Sworn Allegiance

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    Pages 53-76

  5. Olive Schreiner: The ‘Woman of Genius’

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    Pages 77-97

  6. Olive Schreiner’s Organic Art

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    Pages 99-119

  7. Katherine Mansfield: The Art of Self-Development

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    Pages 121-141

  8. Katherine Mansfield: Far, Far Nearer

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    Pages 143-160

  9. Epilogue

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    Pages 161-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-203
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Women's novels have traditionally been read as 'subjective'. Through an examination of three generations of women's fiction in the post-Romantic period, this book challenges traditional readings of women's novels and argues that fiction writing for women has often been a matter of self-erasure rather than self-inscription. In particular, it examines the changing strategies, sometimes collusive and sometimes rebellious, which Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner and Katherine Mansfield employed in their tentative project of inscribing female subjectivity into the novel and story form.

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