| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 179 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : made mad: women, madness and national culture -- The intelligible madwoman -- Theorizing the madwoman: gender, madness and colonialism -- National identity and colonial paranoia in The man who loved children -- Cannibalism and colonialism: Lilian's story -- Dark places and the white nation: colonial manliness -- Conclusions: Australian psychoses. |
| Summary |
This book rethinks women's madness through a rigorous analysis of colonial paranoia. Arguing that colonialism produces a distinct cultural expression of women's madness, this book contends that it is the male characters of the novels who exhibit symptoms of colonial paranoia, as inheritors and agents of the colonial enterprise. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Australian fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Mental illness in literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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Mental illness in literature. |
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Colonies in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Australian & Oceanian. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Deane, Laura, 1965- Gender, madness, and colonial paranoia in Australian literature. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498547321 (DLC) 2017014181 |
| ISBN |
9781498547338 (electronic book) |
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1498547338 (electronic book) |
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9781498547321 (hardcover) |
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149854732X (hardcover) |
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