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'Elizabeth Jolley's The Well, one of the most celebrated examples of the Australian female Gothic, can also be studied as a trauma novel. Set in the vast and dry postcolonial Australian countryside, the novel deals with the intense, traumatic, and somehow bordering on the homo-erotic, relationship between elderly and embittered Hester Harper, heiress to a large agricultural estate, and young and unformed Katherine, a sixteen-year-old orphan whom Hester unofficially adopted one day...' (From author's introduction 201)
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The Phantom and Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Jolley’s 'The Well'
Subjects:
- The Well 1986 single work novel
- `Speaking from Where She is Not'...The Well and My Father's Moon 1991 single work criticism
- Breaking the Realist Mirror: With a (Female) Difference 1991 single work criticism
- The Incestuous Father in the Well : An Hysterical Narrative 1991 single work criticism
- Women Off the Market: Possession and Desire in Elizabeth Jolley's `The Well' 1993 single work criticism
- The Pain of Unbelonging : Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature 2007 anthology criticism
- The Call of the Mother in the Fiction of Elizabeth Jolley 1988 single work criticism
- Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well : Fathoming Postcolonial Depths in the Female Gothic 2009 single work criticism
- Helplessly Tangled in Female Arms and Legs : Elizabeth Jolley's Fictions 1993 single work criticism
- Sexual Gothic : Marian Engel's "Bear" and Elizabeth Jolley's "The Well" 1995 single work criticism
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