Empire, nation, gender and romance : the novels of Cynthia Stockley (1872-1936) and Gertrude Page (1873-1922)

As the first detailed study of the Southern Rhodesian romantic. novels of Cynthia Stockley (Lilian Julia Webb) and Gertrude Page (Gertrude Dobbin), this dissertation presents biographical information about the two writers as well as an analysis of the historical reception and discursive context of the novels - focusing primarily on the novels as rewritings of the gendered discourses of the British "New Imperialism" and of a nascent Rhodesian nationalism. Their novels reveal ambivalences about and conflicts between feminism and maternalism, heroic and bourgeois versions of the romance genre, and bourgeois imperialism and the representation of feminine sexuality.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of English Language and Literature

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Walton, Marion Nicole

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Driver, Dorothy

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9568

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/9568