Victorian Love Stories An Oxford Anthology

Name: Victorian Love Stories An Oxford Anthology
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ISBN: 9780192880406

ISBN-10: 0192880403

ISBN-13: 9780192880406

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: Kate Flint

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This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these stories range from the sentimental to the satiric, the crudely realistic to the perplexed, the mystical, and the rapturous. The lovers include a shopkeeper and an aristocrat, an actress, a governess, Americans abroad, a seaweed gatherer, and a pair of herons Self-sacrifice and adultery figure prominently in these pages, as Victorian writers explored the nature of relationships at a time when women's growing independence brought traditional roles and assumptions into question. These stories confound expectations by…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

The Authoress
Right at Last
Frank's Sealed letter
A Day of Days
The Captain's Last Love
Margaret
Hero
Her Last Appearance
The Story of Salome
The Son's Veto
The End of Her Journey
An Elixir of Love
In a Far-Off World
A Little Grey Glove
A Conflict of Egoisms
An Ugly Little Woman
Our Neighbour
Flower o' the Quince
The Pleasure Pilgrim
At the Gates of Paradise
The Statute of Limitations
The Story of the Herons
The Shrinking Shoe
The Idyll of an Omnibus
Bob Harris's Deputy
An Old Wife's Tale
De Amicitia
Some Ways of Love
Georgie Porgie
Uma Himavutee
The Nightingale and the Rose
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