The Awkward Age - Brossura

James, Henry

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199554919 ISBN 13: 9780199554911

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2009

Riassunto

The Awkward Age(1899), written at a time when female emancipation and the double standard were subjects of fierce debate, is the most remarkable example of James's dramatic method. The novel traces the experiences of 18-year-old Nanda Brookenham, exposed to corruption in the salon of her youthful, 'modern' mother, who, in maintaining a circle where talk is shockingly sophisticated, 'must sacrifice either her daughter or...her intellectual habits'. Does Nanda reach maturity and self-knowledge in the lively company of handsome, genial Vanderbank, whom she loves, and of ugly, intelligent, parvenu Mitchy, who loves her? Or is she a symbol of sterile idealism, as she clings to old Mr Longdon, with his memories of Nanda's grandmother, and of an aristocracy once untouched by money-troubles and dubious French novels? A sense of suppressed violence lurks behind this powerful story of virginal innocence and its importance in the marriage market.

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Book by James Henry Jones Vivien

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0199554919
• ISBN 13: 9780199554911
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432
• Redattore: Jones Vivien