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For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens fromSesame and Lilies was read as alocus classicus of Victorian patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions, presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.
'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved
him...Would that he had some faults!' Alice Vavasor is torn between
a risky marriage with her ambitious cousin George and the safer
prospect of a union with the formidably correct John Grey. Her
indecision is reflected in the dilemmas of her friend Lady
Glencora, confined in the proprieties of her life with Plantagenet
Palliser but tempted to escape with her penniless lover Burgo
Fitzgerald, and of her aunt, the irreverent widow Mrs Greenow, who
must choose between a solid farmer and an untrustworthy soldier as
her next husband. Each woman finds her choice bound up with the
cold realities of money, and the tension between public expectation
and private inclination. Can You Forgive Her? is the first of
Trollope's six Palliser novels, and its focus on the exercise of
power, whether in the masculine world of parliament and the
professions, or within the domesticities of friendship, courtship,
and marriage, signals a new breadth and diversity of interest in
his fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
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Elizabeth Gaskell; Revised by Elizabeth Porges-Watson; Introduction by Dinah Birch; Notes by Dinah Birch
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'A man ... is so in the way in the house!' A vivid and affectionate
portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth
Gaskell's Cranford describes a community dominated by its
independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed
by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices,
the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion
and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and
survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring
loss, but it also brings growth, and welcome freedoms. Cranford
suggests that representatives of different and apparently hostile
social worlds, their minds opened by sympathy and suffering, can
learn from each other. Its social comedy develops into a study of
generous reconciliation, of a kind that will value the past as it
actively shapes the future. This edition includes two related short
pieces by Gaskell, 'The Last Generation in England' and 'The Cage
at Cranford', as well as a selection from the diverse literary and
social contexts in which the Cranford tales take their place. ABOUT
THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
For many years Ruskin has seemed, at best, a conservative thinker
on gender roles. At worst, his lecture On Queens' Gardens from
Sesame and Lilies was read as a locus classicus of Victorian
patriarchal oppression. These essays challenge such assumptions,
presenting a wide-ranging revaluation of Ruskin's place in relation
to gender, and offering new perspectives on continuing debates on
issues of gender - in the Victorian period, and in our own.
'She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted,
she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.'
Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister
at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love
with the urbane Adolphus Crosbie, and is devastated when he
abandons her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina de Courcy. But
Lily has another suitor, Johnny Eames, who has been devoted to her
since boyhood. Perhaps she can find renewed happiness in Johnny's
courtship? The Small House at Allington was among the most
successful of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and has retained its
popularity among modern readers. Lily Dale's stubborn constancy is
a troubling reflection of Trollope's divided feelings about the
need for progress and reform in the context of liberal thought and
politics. Her story is a subtle exploration of loyalty and
ambition, and the pressure for change in a rapidly evolving world.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Duke's Children is the last of Trollope's six Palliser novels and concludes the story of Plantagenet Palliser, former Prime Minister and latterly Duke of Omnium. Lady Glencora is dead and the Duke, widowed and grieving, is left with the responsibility of three difficult children. His sons are sent down from university in disgrace and the Duke is further dismayed when his daughter Lady Mary and his eldest son Silverbridge both propose to marry out of the English nobility. One by one the Duke's dearest wishes are thwarted, yet at the same time he discovers how parents can learn from their children, and is rescued from his own inflexible pride and snobbery by the strength of his private affections. As Birch remarks in her introduction, 'of all the many late developers in Trollope's fiction, Palliser is the most impressive'. The Duke's Children (1880) is resonant with the memories of the Duke of Omnium who had come to be more than a fiction to Trollope, 'so much do I love the man whose character I had endeavoured to portray'.
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'To be taught to write or to speak - but what is the use of
speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think - nay,
what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to
think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at
once, and both true.' Ruskin was the most powerful and influential
critic of the nineteenth century. He wrote about nature, art,
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work is characterized by a clarity of vision as unsettling and
intense now as it was for his first readers. This new selection
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the passionate celebration of J. M. W. Turner's painting in the
first volume of Modern Painters (1843) to Praeterita (1885-9), the
elegiac autobiography of his later years. The introduction outlines
Ruskin's life and thought, and shows why he remains such a
rewarding writer today. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
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