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'Temper Romantic, Bias Offensively Feminine': Australian Women Writers and Literary Nationalism single work   criticism  
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 'Temper Romantic, Bias Offensively Feminine': Australian Women Writers and Literary Nationalism
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Kunapipi vol. 7 no. 2-3 1985 Z612184 1985 periodical issue 1985 pg. 49-58
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon A Double Colonization : Colonial and Post-Colonial Women's Writing Kirsten Holst Petersen (editor), Anna Rutherford (editor), Mundelstrup : Dangaroo Press , 1986 Z925544 1986 anthology criticism poetry short story Mundelstrup : Dangaroo Press , 1986 pg. 49-58
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Along the Faultlines : Sex, Race and Nation in Australian Women's Writing - 1880s-1930s Susan Sheridan , St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 Z577403 1995 selected work criticism Sheridan reconsiders the often-neglected women's fiction and journalism from the 1880s to the 1930s and shows that Australian women writers have been excluded from history unless, like Miles Franklin, they engaged with the nationalistic concerns of their male counterparts. She reassesses the romantic fiction and radical journalism of these lesser-known women alongside famous names like Franklin, Gilmore and Prichard, arguing that they write along the faultlines in the dominant discourse of sex, race and nation. St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 pg. 27-35
Subjects:
  • ca. 1890-1900
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