George Egerton

Broschiertes Buch

Keynotes

Beschreibung

This collection of eight short stories seeks to redefine the place that sexuality holds in women's lives by focusing on women who no longer repress their sexual desires and thus have the freedom to become more than sexual objects. It situates women's relationships with other women, particularly of different classes and ethnicities, as being of primary importance in women's lives. Focusing on the inner consciousness of female subjects, revealed through reverie or dream, or through intense moments of psychological and emotional connection, the stories are full of wanderers, and have the sense of dislocation characteristic of literary modernism; their compression and resistance to narrative closure confirm their alignment with the emergent aesthetic. Coupled with this aesthetic experimentation are explorations of female sexual desire, new gender identities and the pains and pleasures of maternity.

Autor

Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright, born Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne; 14 December 1859 - 12 August 1945, used the pen name, George Egerton. She is regarded as one of the key authors of the late 19th-century New Woman movement. Mary Elizabeth Annie Dunne, afterward known as George Egerton, was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1859. She was a Catholic who attended school in Germany for two years as a teenager. Henry Peter Higginson-Whyte-Melville, who was married at the time, and Egerton eloped in 1888. Her earliest writing endeavors were motivated by her second marriage (in 1891) to the minor explorer Egerton Tertius Clairmonte. Keynotes, Egerton's debut collection of short stories, was released in 1893 by John Lane and Elkin Mathews of the Bodley Head. She was close friends with J. M. Barrie, Ellen Terry, and George Bernard Shaw.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gyan Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 252g
• ISBN-13: 9789351283669
• ISBN-10: 9351283666
• Artikelnr.: 61994829