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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... marriage offered letters in which the two discussed their common reading , ideas about morality and the world , and ... marriage ; both criticized contempo- rary libertinism and cynicism about marriage and did their best to contribute to ...
... marriage offered letters in which the two discussed their common reading , ideas about morality and the world , and ... marriage ; both criticized contempo- rary libertinism and cynicism about marriage and did their best to contribute to ...
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... married Richard on 12 May 1751 in a private ceremony . She took the eminently sensible precaution of having Margaret Hamilton , the Countess of Orrery , as a witness should Richard ever later attempt to deny the marriage had taken place ...
... married Richard on 12 May 1751 in a private ceremony . She took the eminently sensible precaution of having Margaret Hamilton , the Countess of Orrery , as a witness should Richard ever later attempt to deny the marriage had taken place ...
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... - mance of her husband that she forces a separation . While separated , she attempts to show that a married woman can have male friends , but the lesson of the play is that such platonic friendship is x / INTRODUCTION.
... - mance of her husband that she forces a separation . While separated , she attempts to show that a married woman can have male friends , but the lesson of the play is that such platonic friendship is x / INTRODUCTION.
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... marriage met and that she requires the protection of her husband to live with happiness and reputa- tion ; covertly , however , the play suggests that as soon as a good woman relinquishes her demand for romance within marriage as an ...
... marriage met and that she requires the protection of her husband to live with happiness and reputa- tion ; covertly , however , the play suggests that as soon as a good woman relinquishes her demand for romance within marriage as an ...
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... marriage , a condition he is , by the fifth act , happy to accept . For her part , Emily has wanted marriage all along ; she articulates an under- standing of woman's proper role that seems to reflect Griffith's own : " by nature and by ...
... marriage , a condition he is , by the fifth act , happy to accept . For her part , Emily has wanted marriage all along ; she articulates an under- standing of woman's proper role that seems to reflect Griffith's own : " by nature and by ...
Contenido
Letters | 7 |
Letters | 123 |
A List of the Subscribers | 231 |
List of Emendations | 234 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
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