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Author:

Snaith, Anna.

Title:

Modernist voyages : colonial women writers in London, 1890-1945 / Anna Snaith, King's College London.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 278 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women travelers--London--London--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
London (England)--Intellectual life--19th century.
London (England)--Intellectual life--20th century.
London (England)--In literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Decolonization in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Modernism (Literature)--England.
Commonwealth.
Literarisches Leben.
Moderne.
Schriftstellerin.
London.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-274) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Olive Schreiner: diamonds, prostitution and from man to man -- Sarojini Naidu: feminist nationalism and cross-cultural poetics -- Sara Jeannette Duncan: a Canadian girl in London -- Katherine Mansfield: colonial modernism and the magazines -- Jean Rhys: 'a savage from the Cannibal Islands' -- Una Marson: 'little brown girl' in a 'white, white city' -- Christina Stead: transnationalism and the sea voyage -- Afterword.

ISBN:

0521515459 (hdbd)
9780521515450 (hdbd)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)858975342

LCCN:

2013030441

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)