Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits

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dc.contributor.advisorMerrington, Peter
dc.contributor.authorBavasah, Tessa
dc.contributor.otherDept. of English
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-11T09:17:07Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-30T08:52:17Z
dc.date.available2009/05/12 09:04
dc.date.available2009/05/12
dc.date.available2013-10-11T09:17:07Z
dc.date.available2024-10-30T08:52:17Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.descriptionMasters of Arten_US
dc.description.abstractIn this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The focus of the novel is on Cecil John Rhodes and his entourage, and their obsession with empire, which culminates in the South African war in 1900. Featured characters include Chamberlain, Jameson, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin and Olive Schreiner. Harries novel is interpreted as showing resistance to the Victorian society which is the framework which is seen to developed the class and gender-based valued and imperialist thinking of Rhodes and his following. as such the novel is showing resstance to imperialist thinking, the Anglo-Boer war, apartheid and all the resulting legacies for South Africa.en_US
dc.description.countrySouth Africa
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/16473
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectHistorical Fictionen_US
dc.subjectFictionen_US
dc.titleParodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuitsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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