Diana of the Crossways: A Novel - Softcover

Meredith, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814328946 ISBN 13: 9780814328941

Verlag: Wayne State University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Meredith George

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Críticas:

"This is a pivotal text for the study of nineteenth-century representations of women, as well as one that brings to life the Vietorian women's rights movement, through the case of in engaging prolaganist....Nikkl Lee Manos introduction sets the novel within the context of late Victorian feminist struggles, connecting it with the fiction of the 'New Woman' of the period that brought the question of equality under the law to the forefront....There is valuable information here about George Meredith himself, his literary career, and his personal investment in the subject of marriage as an unjust institution for nineteenth-century women; and about the social barriers that the novel broke in its depiction of female desires and passions, including the so called 'lawless' passions of extramarital relationships." - Margaret Stetz, Georgetown University"

Reseña del editor:

A critical edition of a work by one of the premier writers of the nineteenth century. Diana of the Crossways is one of George Meredith's most popular and critically acclaimed novels. When the book was first published in 1885, George Meredith was well known as an advocate for the rights of women. He encouraged their legal emancipation and women's suffrage. His writings reveal his sense of the injustice suffered by women because of constraints on their natural abillties. Diana of the Crossways illustrates a Victorian woman in the process of change as the attempts independence. The problems she faces offer a distinct departure from the treatment of conventional heroines of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Meredith understood and wrote so well about the conflicts women faced that Diana of the Crossways depicts the struggles that led to a new ferninism. Nikki Lee Manos's introduction draws upon a wide range of historical and critical texts, from John Stuart Mill's feminist tract of 1869 to Mary Poovey's contemporary theorles about gender in Victorian fiction. Diana of the Crossways is a central text for the study of nineteenth-century representation of women and the Victorian women's rights movement. Students and scholars of nineteenth-century British literature, women's studies, and cultural studies will find this novel with its invaluable introduction a must read in understanding women during the Victorian era.

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• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0814328946
• ISBN 13: 9780814328941
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 448