Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...remarks had a lasting effect. Denied the education and independence forced upon her older brothers, Alice had little choice but to stay home and hope for escape through marriage. By the time it became clear that proposals were not forth-coming, Alice had long since adopted a third Victorian alternative. Although she dabbled in community activities for the rest of her life, her main energies, from the time she was 20, centered around her "nerves...
...Strouse refuses to make the error of presenting Alice as a martyr to frustrated Victorian womanhood. She frequently suggests parallels between Alice's problems and those of other nineteenth century women, and her book offers insight into the psychosomatic ilnesses common to Victorian spinsters. Nevertheless, she never presents Alice as merely a passive victim of masculine oppression. Alice herself, as Strouse argues, recognized her own responsibility for her failures, and one of the few emotions absent from her writings is indulgent self-pity. Toward the end of her life, looking back over her years of illness, she ruefully berated herself...
...wrong she was, especially in her own case. Granted, she had a point about the stylistic changes since Horace Walpole or, later, those Victorian worthies enshrined in three-decker "Lives and Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great...
Even London's Aldwych Theater is transformed from an auditorium to a living part of Victorian England. Actors in costume greet the audience and show them to their seats. (Playgoers can see the production on two successive nights or, on Saturdays, in a marathon interrupted by a dinner break.) The cast then assembles onstage like a huge family and recites, in alternating chorus, a prologue to the curious life and adventures of Mr. Nicholas Nickleby. If this chorus work is an adaptation of classical theater technique-mastered in another grand R.S.C. production, The Greeks, staged last whiter -the sudden...
This is one work which truly breaks new ground, one of those rare texts that will set the standard for teaching the Victorian novel for years to come. It's doubtful any cynical professor will ever again be able to dismiss Jane Austen for writing "only" little domestic novels, or diminish Mary Shelley by comparing her unfavorably to her illustrious husband. Gilbert and Gubar have quite simply put women writers in their places, at the highest rung of the literary ladder...