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The Odd Women
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Odd Women af George Gissing, 9781551111117
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9781551111117
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
155111111X
Udg. Dato:
23 feb 1998
Størrelse i cm:
21,8 x 14,2 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
23 feb 1998
Forfatter(e):

The Odd Women

Engelsk
Paperback 1998
Format:

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George Gissing’s The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of ‘odd’ or ‘redundant’ women, the cultural impact of ‘the new woman,’ and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be ‘odd’ or ‘redundant,’ and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing’s text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.

In Gissing’s story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9781551111117
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
155111111X
Udg. Dato:
23 feb 1998
Størrelse i cm:
21,8 x 14,2 x 2,4
Oplagsdato:
23 feb 1998
Forfatter(e):
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