in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2010
,
234-342 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Sturrock, June |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2010 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| In mid Victorian Britain, women novelists appropriated Emma (1816) as a narrative of women's frustrated and misdirected energies. Emma's health, vitality, and lack of an obvious outlet for her energy—her lack of “something to do”—spoke to a nagging anxiety of the period. These qualities, combined with her immature and overconfident misunderstanding of other people, provided the framework for a number of largely traditionalist critiques of the ongoing heated debate over women and work. The best-known fictional result of this debate is, of course, the slightly belated Middlemarch (1871-72). The lesser-known results discussed here—Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family (1865) and Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks (1866)—are, apart from their own considerable intrinsic and historical interest, a significant part both of the reception history of Emma and of the context for Middlemarch. This article discusses The Clever Woman of the Family and Miss Marjoribanks (as well as, more briefly, Yonge's The Young Stepmother [1860]) and indicates their relevance to the two canonical novels. | |
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