Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883)
This essay explores the interconnections between the discourses on animals, the Empire and women, three domains in which the confidence of the late-Victorian male was being tested at the end of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner, whose alleg...
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Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-03-01
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Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cve/3200 |