The Delicate DistressUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1997 M04 17 - 267 páginas The Delicate Distress (1769) focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage - the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Elizabeth Griffith takes the epistolary novel of sensibility in the tradition of Samuel Richardson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau and re-imagines it from a feminist perspective that centers on strong, intelligent, and virtuous women. Two sisters exchange letters about urgent ethical questions concerning love, marriage, morality, art, the duties of wives and husbands, and passion versus reason, while two men correspond about the same subjects. The Delicate Distress is one of the earliest novels to explore the psychology of characters who observe and reflect but engage in no grand public actions. |
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... Letters between Henry and Frances . The first two volumes of the Genuine Letters , appearing in 1757 , had covered the tense courtship between Richard , writing as " Henry , " an Irish gentleman , and Elizabeth , writing as " Frances ...
... Letters between Henry and Frances . The first two volumes of the Genuine Letters , appearing in 1757 , had covered the tense courtship between Richard , writing as " Henry , " an Irish gentleman , and Elizabeth , writing as " Frances ...
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... Letters , Richard in his own writings often quotes and praises Elizabeth's work , and in The Gordian Knot introduces a Mr. and Mrs. Sutton who at- tempt to found just such an academy . Both Richard and Elizabeth were also professional ...
... Letters , Richard in his own writings often quotes and praises Elizabeth's work , and in The Gordian Knot introduces a Mr. and Mrs. Sutton who at- tempt to found just such an academy . Both Richard and Elizabeth were also professional ...
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... letters of Ninon and St. Evremond , Griffith also translated what purported to be authentic letters be- tween Ninon ... letter writer , can be made to seem problematic , worthy of protracted debate between correspondents . The English ...
... letters of Ninon and St. Evremond , Griffith also translated what purported to be authentic letters be- tween Ninon ... letter writer , can be made to seem problematic , worthy of protracted debate between correspondents . The English ...
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... letters in Genuine Letters are not dated , but they occasionally refer to events that can help establish dates , and they can also be correlated with the surviving correspondence between Elizabeth and David Garrick , the famous actor ...
... letters in Genuine Letters are not dated , but they occasionally refer to events that can help establish dates , and they can also be correlated with the surviving correspondence between Elizabeth and David Garrick , the famous actor ...
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... letter writer whose letters are addressed to another whose letters do not appear , we think Ernest Baker in The History of the English Novel was nev- ertheless reasonable in calling Griffith " a follower of Madame Riccoboni , " who ...
... letter writer whose letters are addressed to another whose letters do not appear , we think Ernest Baker in The History of the English Novel was nev- ertheless reasonable in calling Griffith " a follower of Madame Riccoboni , " who ...
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Letters | 7 |
Letters | 123 |
A List of the Subscribers | 231 |
List of Emendations | 234 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
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