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Author Snaith, Anna.

Title Modernist voyages : colonial women writers in London, 1890-1945 / Anna Snaith.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 278 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Chapter one. Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and From man to man -- Chapter two. Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics -- Chapter three. Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Canadian girl in London -- Chapter four. Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines -- Chapter five. Jean Rhys: 'A savage from the Cannibal Islands' -- Chapter six. Una Marson: 'Little brown girl' in a 'White, white city' -- Chapter seven. Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary Examines colonial women writers who traveled to London in the modernist period, and the significance of gender to empire and modernism.
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Subject Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Commonwealth literature (English) -- Women authors.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Women travelers -- England -- London -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Women travelers.
England -- London.
Biography.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
London (England) -- In literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- England.
Modernism (Literature)
England.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Snaith, Anna. Modernist Voyages. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014 9781107781153 9780521515450
ISBN 9781139018852 (electronic book)
113901885X (electronic book)
9781107784352 (electronic book)
9781107781153 (electronic book)
1107781159 (electronic book)
1107784352 (electronic book)
0521515459 (hardback)
9780521515450 (hardback)
9780521515450 (hardback)