This book offers a new approach to fin-de-siecle and New Woman
criticism, focusing on three key exponents of New Woman fiction:
Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner and Mona Caird. Heilmann pays close
attention to the gaps, shifts, inconsistencies and performative
acts by which each writer positioned herself ideologically and
textually. She highlights the fluidity of these positions through
time, and in relation to different modes of publication and target
audiences. All three writers defined political activism as an
expression of female creativity, and distanced themselves to
varying degrees from existing artistic movements catering for a
mainly male-dominated market. Heilmann shows how they drew on,
mimicked, feminised and ultimately transformed traditional literary
and cultural tropes and paradigms - femininity (Grand), allegory
(Schreiner) and mythology (Caird) - to create a generation of New
Women who imploded the patriarchal cultural and aesthetic framework
in order to construct female creativity as the 'mother' principle
of artistic genius.
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