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Cometh up as a flower
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- Book Synopsis
- An important sensation novel, Cometh Up as a Flower made Rhoda Broughton's reputation and fortune while also attracting harsh criticism. Nell LeStrange, the heroine, is tricked by her calculating sister into leaving her poor lover and marrying a wealthy man she does not love. What angered critics of the time was the heroine's frank discussion of her sexual attraction to her lover, and her dispassionate evaluation of loveless marriage as a form of self-sale. Broughton's lively, colloquial narrative voice, witty observations of contemporary manners, and sympathetic portrayal of the lives and feelings of young women, though no longer shocking, are as engaging now as they were to her readers of 1867. This Broadview Edition includes an extensive selection of appendices on the novel's reception (including a parody of Broughton), Victorian discourses on health and medicine, and contemporary attitudes towards women, marriage, and sexuality.
- About The Author
- Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781551118055
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Broadview Press, (01 March 2010)
- Number of Pages
- 412
- Weight
- 540 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 214 x 150 x 22 mm
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