The Odd Women
`there are half a million more women than men in this unhappy country of ours . . . So many odd women - no making a pair with them.'The idea of the superfluity of unmarried women was one the `New Woman' novels of the 1890s sought to challenge. But in The Odd Women (1893) Gissing satirizes the prevailing literary image of the `New Woman' and makes the point that unmarried women were generally viewed less as noble and romantic figures than as `odd' and marginal in relation to the ideal of womanhood itself. Set in grimy, fog-ridden London, these `odd' women range from the idealistic, financially self-sufficientMary Barfoot and Rhoda Nunn, who…
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Weitere Autoren: Ingham, Patricia (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-160530-7
- EAN: 9780191605307
- Produktnummer: 13995829
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'370 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 map
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