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Dreams : Three Works by Olive Schreiner.
Title:
Dreams : Three Works by Olive Schreiner.
Author:
Schreiner, Olive.
ISBN:
9781847143990
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Series:
Late Victorian and Early Modernist Women Writers
Contents:
Contents -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- DREAMS -- I: The Lost Joy -- II: The Hunter -- III: The Gardens of Pleasure -- IV: In a Far-Off World -- V: Three Dreams in a Desert -- VI: A Dream of Wild Bees -- VII: In a Ruined Chapel -- VIII: Life's Gifts -- IX: The Artist's Secret -- X: I Thought I Stood -- XI: The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed -- DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE -- I: A Little African Story -- II: The Woman's Rose -- III: "The Policy In Favour of Protection-" -- STORIES, DREAMS AND ALLEGORIES -- Preface -- STORIES -- Eighteen-ninety-nine -- Nineteen hundred and one -- In the year nineteen hundred and four -- The Buddhist Priest's Wife -- On the Banks of a Full River -- The Wax Doll and the Stepmother -- The Adventures of Master Towser -- DREAMS AND ALLEGORIES -- A Soul's Journey - Two Visions -- God's Gifts to Men -- They Heard ... -- Life's Gifts -- The Flower and the Spirit -- The River of Life -- The Brown Flower -- The Two Paths -- A Dream of Prayer -- Workers -- The Cry of South Africa -- Seeds A-Growing -- The Great Heart of England -- Who Knocks at the Door? -- The Winged Butterfly -- The Dawn of Civilisation -- Glossary.
Abstract:
This volume brings together for the first time the entire range of the shorter pieces of imaginative writing that she continued to produce throughout her life, together with her final account of the vision informing her life's work. It rescues Schreiner from the charge of having exhausted a slim talent in one semi autobiographical novel and provides a context in which to situate a woman writer whose idealist concerns recognised no simple geographical boundaries. To picture her as first and foremost a colonial writer or, alternatively, primarily as a member of the finde-siecle British avant garde, does little justice to the links she made in her own writing and to the complex situation she occupied, for Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner's life (1855-1920) straddled two centuries and two continents, while her travels between the land of her birth, South Africa, and her family's European homeland embroiled her in the political ferment of two wars: the Boer War (1899-1902) and the first World War (1914-1918).
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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