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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... kind of close and disciplined at- tention to language that also helped compensate for her exclusion from serious schooling . Throughout her career , Griffith continued to translate and to adapt contemporary French works , including ...
... kind of close and disciplined at- tention to language that also helped compensate for her exclusion from serious schooling . Throughout her career , Griffith continued to translate and to adapt contemporary French works , including ...
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... kind of Plea- sure even in unsuccessful Efforts made towards Duty " ( GL 5 : 124 ) . Like many women writers at mid - century and also like several of the more retiring male poets and sentimental writers of the day , Elizabeth dis ...
... kind of Plea- sure even in unsuccessful Efforts made towards Duty " ( GL 5 : 124 ) . Like many women writers at mid - century and also like several of the more retiring male poets and sentimental writers of the day , Elizabeth dis ...
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... kind of cheap sensationalism in- appropriate to serious fiction . While it is true that English novelists at mid - century did have recourse to Roman Catholicism well before the rage for convents and monasteries in gothic fiction , it ...
... kind of cheap sensationalism in- appropriate to serious fiction . While it is true that English novelists at mid - century did have recourse to Roman Catholicism well before the rage for convents and monasteries in gothic fiction , it ...
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... kind , in our own country , under our own religion and laws ; but equally free from tyranny - An asylum for unhappy women to retreat to — not from the world , but from the misfortunes , or the slander of it - for female orphans , young ...
... kind , in our own country , under our own religion and laws ; but equally free from tyranny - An asylum for unhappy women to retreat to — not from the world , but from the misfortunes , or the slander of it - for female orphans , young ...
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Contenido
Letters | 7 |
Letters | 123 |
A List of the Subscribers | 231 |
List of Emendations | 234 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
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