Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0192123300 ISBN 13: 9780192123305

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these stories range from the sentimental to the satiric, the crudely realistic to the perplexed, the mystical, and the rapturous. The lovers include a shopkeeper and an aristocrat, an actress, a governess, Americans abroad, a seaweed gatherer, and a pair of herons
Self-sacrifice and adultery figure prominently in these pages, as Victorian writers explored the nature of relationships at a time when women's growing independence brought traditional roles and assumptions into question. These stories confound expectations by recasting the familiar genres of fable, fairy tale, and naturalism to deal with these new themes. The anthology further exceeds our expectations with its inclusive array of voices and perspectives; alongside the well-known work of Trollope and Hardy one finds equally powerful stories by Lucy Clifford, Hubert Crackenthorpe, and Ellen T. Fowler. Displaying the complexity of love and the inventiveness of Victorian fiction this volume will appeal to students of Victorian culture and any lover of short fiction.

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Kate Flint is University Lecturer in Victorian and Modern English Literature and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. She is the author of The Woman Reader 1837-1914 (OUP, 1993), and has edited the World's Classics editions of Dickens's Great Expectations, Woolf's Jacob's Room, and Trollope's Can You Forgive Her?.

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192123300
• ISBN 13: 9780192123305
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 501
• Redattore: Flint Kate