Victorian Short Stories 2

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Victorian Short Stories 2
THE TRIALS OF LOVE
Edited by Harold Orel
The culmination of romantic love in a convenient 'happy ever after' marriage was a commonplace of the Victorian novel. But towards the end of the nineteenth century writers such as George Gissing, Thomas Hardy and George Moore began to confront frankly the realities of the married
state, and the problems and inequalities of women's position in society. As the tyranny of the lending libraries, with their regular fare of three-volume novels extolling domestic bliss, started to decline, hundreds of lively general-interest magazines sprang up. Within their pages shorter fiction - sometimes expressing radical social and political views, and questioning even the sanctity of marriage itself - could flourish uncensored.
The fifteen short stories chosen here illustrate the rich variety of approaches taken to the subject of love and marriage by a representative selection of the writers of the age, including Elizabeth... Tovább

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Victorian Short Stories 2
THE TRIALS OF LOVE
Edited by Harold Orel
The culmination of romantic love in a convenient 'happy ever after' marriage was a commonplace of the Victorian novel. But towards the end of the nineteenth century writers such as George Gissing, Thomas Hardy and George Moore began to confront frankly the realities of the married
state, and the problems and inequalities of women's position in society. As the tyranny of the lending libraries, with their regular fare of three-volume novels extolling domestic bliss, started to decline, hundreds of lively general-interest magazines sprang up. Within their pages shorter fiction - sometimes expressing radical social and political views, and questioning even the sanctity of marriage itself - could flourish uncensored.
The fifteen short stories chosen here illustrate the rich variety of approaches taken to the subject of love and marriage by a representative selection of the writers of the age, including Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Ella D'Arcy, 'George Egerton' and Rudyard Kipling. All, in their different ways, display the preoccupations and preconceptions of their era, but in contemplating the lives of those who are in love - and those who have fallen out of love - they address universal issues which can speak to our
own time, too.
Cover Illustration: 'The Confession' by Sir Frank Dicksee (Bridgeman Art Library) Vissza