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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... wife , Richard and Elizabeth Griffith , who had already made themselves famous by publishing A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances . The first two volumes of the Genuine Letters , appearing in 1757 , had covered the ...
... wife , Richard and Elizabeth Griffith , who had already made themselves famous by publishing A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances . The first two volumes of the Genuine Letters , appearing in 1757 , had covered the ...
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... wife . Most professional women writers in the eigh- teenth century did some translation , usually from the French , since women were much more likely to have learned French than Greek or Latin , and since , as Richard calculated , there ...
... wife . Most professional women writers in the eigh- teenth century did some translation , usually from the French , since women were much more likely to have learned French than Greek or Latin , and since , as Richard calculated , there ...
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... Wife ( 1765 ) , is based on one of the elegant stories of Jean - François Marmontel , " L'hereux divorce " ( " The Happy Divorce " ) from the popular Contes moraux ( Moral Tales ) . The female protagonist , Lady Frankland , makes such ...
... Wife ( 1765 ) , is based on one of the elegant stories of Jean - François Marmontel , " L'hereux divorce " ( " The Happy Divorce " ) from the popular Contes moraux ( Moral Tales ) . The female protagonist , Lady Frankland , makes such ...
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... Wife yields a double moral : overtly , Lady Frankland must learn that she is not entitled to have her demands for romance within marriage met and that she requires the protection of her husband to live with happiness and reputa- tion ...
... Wife yields a double moral : overtly , Lady Frankland must learn that she is not entitled to have her demands for romance within marriage met and that she requires the protection of her husband to live with happiness and reputa- tion ...
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... wife would finish first . Not too long before Richard's birthday , on St. Patrick's Day 1767 , Elizabeth announced that she had finished volume one , but lamented that “ the Booksellers will give nothing worth taking for it xii ...
... wife would finish first . Not too long before Richard's birthday , on St. Patrick's Day 1767 , Elizabeth announced that she had finished volume one , but lamented that “ the Booksellers will give nothing worth taking for it xii ...
Contenido
Letters | 7 |
Letters | 123 |
A List of the Subscribers | 231 |
List of Emendations | 234 |
Explanatory Notes | 243 |
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