28 results for 'Olive Schreiner'

This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best...

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and...

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...

Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) was the best-known feminist theorist and writer of her time. Her writings spanned a number of conventionally separate genres (including the novel, short story, allegory,...

Christine Bayles Kortsch asks us to shift our understanding of late Victorian literary culture by examining its inextricable relationship with the material culture of dress and sewing, what Kortsch...

This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Closer Union: A Letter on South African Union and the...

Woman and War: From Woman and Labor (1911) is a non-fiction book written by Olive Schreiner, a South African writer and feminist. The book explores the relationship between women and war, and how...

"The Story of an African Farm" by Olive Schreiner is a literary masterpiece that beckons readers into the vast and untamed landscapes of 19th-century South Africa. This groundbreaking novel,...

Gain a fresh perspective on one of the most tumultuous periods in South African history with this powerful book by Olive Schreiner. From her own experiences living in South Africa to her observations...

This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings...

Originally published in 1893, "Dream Life and Real Life - a Little African Story" is a short story that illuminates issues of ethnicity and gender through a tragic tale of a little girl that becomes...

How are objects central to the formation of individuals, their communities, and their liberties? What role do objects play as they move between societies and their different systems of value as...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...

Title: The Story of an African Farm ... New edition, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is...

The German poet and mystic Novalis once identified philosophy as a form of homesickness. Centuries later, as modernity's displacements continue to intensify, we feel Novalis's homesickness more than...

Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the...

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or...

When Rains Come, Mzi Mahola's second collection is strongly reminiscent of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Eperience. The childhood poems, gently nostalgic for a rural and traditional...