Suburbia, ressentiment, and the end of empire in A Passage to India
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A Passage to India is a story where Miss Quested and Mrs. Moore discover their 'romantic voyage' to the subcontinent, which has led them to 'a grindon of bungalows'. It intimates imperial dissolution by reflecting a shift in the organization of colonial cities during the early twentieth century.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2003
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The radical imaginary of The Bell Jar
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The novel, 'The Bell Jar' is written by a young woman, Esther Greenwood, as a pseudo-memoir that remains as a material fact of her recovery. The novel participates in a process of substitution and repetition and the feelings that these processes multiply through the novel's mass production.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2004
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"Verily the antipodes of home": the domestic novel on the Australian bush
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The consequences of transporting the governess to colonial Australia are explored. What this pairing reveals about the domestic novel as a genre that was modified and transformed within this specific colonial context is examined.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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