Olive Schreiner

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Olive Schreiner

Writing Networks and Global Contexts

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

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Language: English

Published by: Edinburgh University Press

Published on: 29th September 2023

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 352 pages

ISBN: 9781399512565


Introduction

This collection of essays considers the significance of South African-born writer, activist and thinker Olive Schreiner in international and multidisciplinary contexts in her time – and the ongoing relevance of her work to our own.

Influence and Legacy

A leading writer of New Woman Fiction at the fin de siècle, Schreiner influenced generations of readers, not to mention other writers.

Schreiner Studies

Taken together, these essays make the argument for a ‘new’ Schreiner Studies drawing on recent developments in scholarship on global and peripheral modernisms, activist networks and intersectionality, posthumanism, memory studies and intermediality.

Significance

They position Schreiner’s work and legacy as significant for understanding literary and social archives, race and gender performance, and the rise of literary modernism in the global Anglosphere.

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