The Three Perils of Woman: Or Love, Leasing, and Jealousy - Brossura

Hasler, Antony J.; Mack, Douglas S.

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ISBN 10: 0748663177 ISBN 13: 9780748663170

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Commentators once dismissed Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness.' Ian Duncan, Studies in Hogg and his World'Both stories [of The Three Perils of Woman] are generically diverse, self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as 'domestic tales', apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which?- struggles through to what may be a happy ending. [...] What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so; and if

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L'autore:

Antony J. Hasler is Professor in English at the Saint Louis University Douglas Mack is Formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling

Product Description:

Book by Hogg James

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0748663177
• ISBN 13: 9780748663170
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 512