The Three Perils of Woman: Or Love, Leasing, and Jealousy (Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected) - Softcover

Hogg, James

 
9780748663170: The Three Perils of Woman: Or Love, Leasing, and Jealousy (Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0748663177 ISBN 13: 9780748663170
Verlag: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2003

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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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Antony J. Hasler is a Professor in English at Saint Louis University.

The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.



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

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Verlag
Edinburgh Univ. Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748663177
ISBN 13 
9780748663170
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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