From Colonial to Modern : Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940

Smith, Michelle J./ Bradford, Clare/ Moruzi, Kristine

University of Toronto Press（2018/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781487503093
• DDC分類 820.93523

Full Description

Through a comparison of Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand texts published between 1840 and 1940, From Colonial to Modern develops a new history of colonial girlhoods revealing how girlhood in each of these emerging nations reflects a unique political, social, and cultural context.

Print culture was central to the definition, and redefinition, of colonial girlhood during this period of rapid change. Models of girlhood are shared between settler colonies and contain many similar attitudes towards family, the natural world, education, employment, modernity, and race, yet, as the authors argue, these texts also reveal different attitudes that emerged out of distinct colonial experiences. Unlike the imperial model representing the British ideal, the transnational girl is an adaptation of British imperial femininity and holds, for example, a unique perception of Indigenous culture and imperialism. Drawing on fiction, girls' magazines, and school magazine, the authors shine a light on neglected corners of the literary histories of these three nations and strengthen our knowledge of femininity in white settler colonies.

Contents

Introduction

Empire and Transnational Flows



Colonial Girls' Print Culture
Girlhood in the British Empire

National and Transnational Dynamics



The Colonial and Imperial Family
Environment and the Natural World
Race and Texts for Girls

Modernity and Transnational Femininities



Work and Education
Girlhood and Coming of Age during the First World War
Modernity and the Nation

Conclusion