Belinda by Maria Edgeworth (English) Paperback Book

Description: Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Linda Bree Belinda (1801) tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. Braving the perils of the marriage market, Belinda learns to think for herself as the examples of her friends prove singularly unreliable. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.Maria Edgeworths 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title, only too conscious of being advertised on the marriage market, grows in moral maturity as she seeksto balance self-fulfilment with achieving material success. Among those whom she encounters are the socialite Lady Delacour, whose brilliance and wit hide a tragic secret, the radical feminist Harriot Freke, the handsome andwealthy Creole gentleman Mr Vincent, and the mercurial Clarence Hervey, whose misguided idealism has led him into a series of near-catastrophic mistakes. In telling their story Maria Edgeworth gives a vivid picture of life in late eighteenth-century London, skilfully showing both the attractions of leisured society and its darker side, and blending drawing-room comedy with challenging themes involving serious illness, obsession, slavery and interracial marriage. Author Biography Linda Bree was until 2019 Head of Humanities at Camrbidge University Press, and is now a senior member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She has previously edited, for the Oxford Worlds Classics, Daniel Defoes Moll Flanders (2011) and (with Claude Rawson) Henry Fieldings Jonathan Wild (2008). Table of Contents IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Maria EdgeworthBelindaAppendixExplanatory notes Long Description It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.Maria Edgeworths 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title, only too conscious of being advertised on the marriage market, grows in moral maturity as she seeksto balance self-fulfilment with achieving material success. Among those whom she encounters are the socialite Lady Delacour, whose brilliance and wit hide a tragic secret, the radical feminist Harriot Freke, the handsome andwealthy Creole gentleman Mr Vincent, and the mercurial Clarence Hervey, whose misguided idealism has led him into a series of near-catastrophic mistakes. In telling their story Maria Edgeworth gives a vivid picture of life in late eighteenth-century London, skilfully showing both the attractions of leisured society and its darker side, and blending drawing-room comedy with challenging themes involving serious illness, obsession, slavery and interracial marriage. Feature The copytext is the first edition of 1801, in which a black servant marries a white country girl, and the heroine withdraws on moral grounds from a marriage she has promised to contract, both among controversial aspects of the novel removed in subsequent editions. The text has been meticulously checked against the original, and against later editionsThe introduction and notes show for the first time how Edgeworth introduced into the novel vivid factual details - not only real places, people and social venues, but specific exhibitions, events and even newspaper advertisements - of social life in 1790s LondonClear and concise explanatory notes give useful information about places, situations and customs with which the twenty-first century reader may not be familiarBelinda is significant as a reclaimed text by a neglected woman writerContain an appendix which traces clearly, and with extensive quotation, the changes made to the text over a series of editions which appeared in the authors lifetimes, and points out their effects Details ISBN0199682135 Author Linda Bree Publisher Oxford University Press Series Oxford Worlds Classics Year 2020 ISBN-10 0199682135 ISBN-13 9780199682133 Pages 560 Edition 2nd Format Paperback Imprint Oxford University Press Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Linda Bree DEWEY 823.7 Language English Publication Date 2020-02-27 UK Release Date 2020-02-27 NZ Release Date 2020-02-27 Edition Description 2nd Revised edition Audience General AU Release Date 2020-03-10 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126857848;

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