Title :
Victorian love stories : an Oxford anthology
Format:
Books
Summary:
This varied, unusual selection of short stories presents Victorian love in all its moods, from triumphant to tragic. Covering a period that embraces both Elizabeth Gaskell and Somerset Maugham, these stories range from the sentimental to the satiric, the cruelly realistic to the perplexed, the mystical, and the rapturous. The lovers include a shopkeeper and an aristocrat, an actress, a governess, Americans abroad, a seaweed gatherer, and a pair of herons. Self-sacrifice
and adultery are prominent in these pages, as Victorian writers explored the nature of relationships at a time when women's growing independence brought into question traditional roles and assumptions. These stories confound expectations by dealing with their themes in wholly new and original ways, in fable and fairy-tale as well as bitter naturalism. Alongside familiar names such as Anthony Trollope and Thomas Hardy there are equally powerful stories by Lucy Clifford,
Hubert Crackenthorpe, and Ellen T. Fowler. This is an exhilarating collection in which the complexity of love is wonderfully matched by the inventiveness of Victorian fiction.
Language:
English
ISBN - ISSN:
0192123300
Physical Description:
xiv, 501 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
The Authoress / Grace Aguilar -- Right at Last / Elizabeth Gaskell -- Frank's Sealed Letter / William Morris -- Malachi's Cove / Anthony Trollope -- A Day of Days / Henry James -- The Captain's Last Love / Wilkie Collins -- Margaret / Christiana Fraser-Tytler -- Hero / Christina Rossetti -- Her Last Appearance / Mary Braddon -- The Story of Salome / Amelia B. Edwards -- The Son's Veto / Thomas Hardy -- The End of Her Journey / Lucy Clifford -- An Elixir of Love / W. S. Gilbert -- In a Far-Off World / Olive Schreiner -- A Little Grey Glove / George Egerton -- A Conflict of Egoisms / Hubert Crackanthorpe -- An Ugly Little Woman / Nora Vynne -- Our Neighbour, Mr Gibson / Florence Henniker -- Flower o' the Quince / Henry Harland -- The Pleasure-Pilgrim / Ella Darcy -- At the Gates of Paradise / Laurence Alma-Tadema -- The Statute of Limitations / Ernest Dowson -- The Story of the Herons / Laurence Housman -- The Shrinking Shoe / Walter Besant -- An Idyll of an Omnibus / Mary Angela Dickens -- Bob Harris's Deputy / A. St John Adcock -- An Old Wife's Tale / Ellen T. Fowler -- De Amicitia / Somerset Maugham -- Some Ways of Love / Charlotte Mew -- Georgie Porgie / Rudyard Kipling -- Uma Himavutee / Flora Annie Steel -- The Nightingale and the Rose / Oscar Wilde.
First Title value, for Searching:
Victorian love stories : an Oxford anthology / edited by Kate Flint.
