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Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950

Smith, Michelle J., Moruzi, Kristine

2014

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01 02 Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood. The interconnected themes of colonialism, empire, gender, race, and class show how colonial girls occupy ambivalent positions in British and settler societies between 1840 and 1950. Although girlhood is often linked to freedom, independence, novelty, and modernity, it may also represent an idea that needs to be contained and controlled to serve the needs of the nation. Across national boundaries, the malleability of colonial girlhoods is evident. Drawing on a range of approaches including history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies, this book reflects on the complexities of girlhood during the colonial era. 02 02 Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950 explores a range of real and fictional colonial girlhood experiences from Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland, and Canada to reflect on the transitional state of girlhood between childhood and adulthood. 04 02 List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors 1. Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith PART I: THEORISING THE COLONIAL GIRL 2. Colonialism: What Girlhoods Can Tell Us; Angela Woollacott 3. Fashioning the Colonial Girl: 'Made in Britain' Femininity in the Imperial Archive; Cecily Devereux PART II: ROMANCE AND MARRIAGE 4. 'Explorations in Industry': Careers, Romance, and the Future of the Colonial Australian Girl; Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver 5. Deflecting the Marriage Plot: The British and Indigenous Girl in 'Robina Crusoe and Her Lonely Island Home' (1882-1883); Terri Doughty 6. Coming of Age in Colonial India: The Discourse and Debate over the Age of Consummation in the Nineteenth Century; Subhasri Ghosh PART III: RACE AND CLASS 7. 'My blarsted greenstone throne!': Māori Princesses and Nationhood in New Zealand Fiction for Girls; Clare Bradford 8. Black Princesses or Domestic Servants: The Portrayal of Indigenous Australian Girlhood in Colonial Children's Literature; Juliet O'Conor 9. The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town; Sarah Duff PART IV: FICTIONS OF COLONIAL GIRLHOOD 10. The Colonial Girl's Own Papers: Girl Authors, Editors, and Australian Girlhood in Ethel Turner's Three Little Maids ; Tamara S. Wagner 11. 'I am glad I am Irish through and through and through': Irish Girlhood and Identity in L.T. Meade's Light O' the Morning; or, The Story of an Irish Girl (1899); Beth Rodgers 12. Making Space for the Irish Girl: Rosa Mulholland and Irish Girls in Fiction at the Turn of the Century; Susan Cahill 13. Education and Work in Service of the Nation: Canadian and Australian Girls' Fiction, 1908-1921; Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith PART V: MATERIAL CULTURE 14. Picturing Girlhood and Empire: The Guide Movement and Photography; Kristine Alexander 15. Material Girls: Daughters, Dress, and Distance in the Trans-Imperial Family; Laura Ishiguro 16. An Unexpected History Lesson: Meeting European 'Colonial Girls' through Knitting, Weaving, Spinning, and Cups of Tea; Fiona P. McDonald Bibliography Index 08 02 \"A groundbreaking collection of essays on girlhood and girls'experiences in colonies throughout the British Empire, Colonial Girlhood covers sources, parts of the world, and cross-cultural experiences that will interest scholars of literature, history, film, cultural studies, women's studies and postcolonial issues. In addition, it should make an appealing classroom text.\" - Sally Mitchell, Emerita Professor of English and Women's Studies, Temple University, USA 13 02 Dr Kristine Moruzi is a lecturer at Deakin University, Australia, in the School of Communication and Creative Arts and a research fellow at Deakin's Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention. She is the author of Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915 . Dr Michelle Smith is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention at Deakin University, Australia. She is the author of Empire in British Literature and Culture: Imperial Girls, 1880-1915 , which won the 2012 European Society for the Study of English prize for best first book.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Subject: 18th Century and 19th Century Literature / 20th Century and 21st Century Literature / African Literature / Australian & Oceanian / Books and reading / Caribbean & Latin American / Colonies in literature / Cultural Theory / European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh / Fiction / Gender Studies / Girls / Girls -- Books and reading / Girls in literature / Literary and Cultural Studies / Literary and Gender Studies / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / African. bisacsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian. bisacsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American. bisacsh / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh / Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 / Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers / Literary studies: from c 1900 / Literary Theory / Literature / Palgrave History Collection / Prose: non-fiction / Twentieth-Century Literature
• ISBN: 9781137356345, 1137356340, 9781137356352, 1137356359, 9781349470440, 1349470449