The Wing Of Azrael

Author : Mona Caird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934555940

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The Wing of Azrael by Mona Caird Pdf

In 1888, a little-known writer named Mona Caird ignited a firestorm of controversy when she published her essay "Marriage" in The Westminster Review, arguing that modern marriage was a failure. Over the six month period that followed, the journal received some 27,000 letters in response, and only the Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper succeeded in finally turning attention away from the debate. The following year, Caird published her three volume novel The Wing of Azrael, which incorporated many of her views on the status of women and the problems with modern marriage. Viola Sedley, an imaginative and independent young woman, finds herself falling in love with the dashing Harry Lancaster, but her parents have arranged a marriage for her with Sir Philip Dendraith in order to avert their own financial ruin. Viola believes she is doing her duty by acceding to her parents' wishes and marrying Philip, but she soon discovers that married life is intolerable to her. Tormented by her husband's cruelty and hemmed in by social conventions, Viola dreams of ways to escape the bondage of her marriage. And as her life becomes more and more wretched and her urge to be free becomes unbearable, Viola will find herself led inexorably toward a shocking and tragic fate! First published in 1889, The Wing of Azrael has been out of print since its initial publication, and the original edition has survived in only a small handful of copies. This new scholarly edition of the novel features an introduction and notes by Tracey S. Rosenberg, as well as an appendix containing contemporary reviews of the novel and articles on Caird and the debate over marriage.

Author : Alice Mona Caird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1062085967

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The Wing of Azrael by Alice Mona Caird Pdf

Author : Mona Caird
Publisher : Lovell
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435053024865

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The Wing of Azrael by Mona Caird Pdf

Author : Lisa Anne Surridge
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Abused women in literature
ISBN : 9780821416426

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Bleak Houses by Lisa Anne Surridge Pdf

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Author : Mona Alison Caird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:13378824

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The Wing of Azrael by Mona Alison Caird Pdf

Author : Ross George Dering (pseud. [i.e. Frederic Henry Balfour.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101066477678

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Giraldi; Or, The Curse of Love by Ross George Dering (pseud. [i.e. Frederic Henry Balfour.]) Pdf

Author : Jina Moon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781443892070

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Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction by Jina Moon Pdf

This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence. Examining the mechanisms of domestic violence through the historical lenses of the law, crime, and economics, this study illuminates these novelists’ depictions of wife-battering, including scenes in which women witness their children being beaten or children witness their mothers’ beatings. This book also shows how these representations interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time. Extending from the decades before the 1857 Divorce Act to the Suffrage era, the book details the changing circumstances of conjugal violence and divorce in England. William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844) and Caroline Norton’s Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times (1851) expose the impact of class on reactions to domestic violence. Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady (1875) and Ouida’s (Marie Louise de la Ramé) Moths (1880) depict proto-New Women figures who resist domestic violence, while traditional wife figures continue to fall victim. In Mona Caird’s The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange” (1904), protagonists exact their own justice on perpetrators of domestic violence. By the Edwardian period, it was clear that legislation alone could not solve the problems of domestic violence. Constance Maud’s No Surrender (1911) adroitly links wife-battering with public violence against suffragettes, exposing the underlying British socio-cultural system that maintained women’s subordination.

Author : James Buffin
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781662443398

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The Book of Azrael by James Buffin Pdf

Lucifer is opening hellgates and letting the seven deadly sins out of hell and upon the Earth. God has sent Azrael and Abaddon to send them back and save the world from hell on Earth. Their journey will take them across the world and even other dimensions. They will face the darkest and wickedest demons, gods, and demigods. They will gain new companions along their way, as well as gaining new powers and God weapons, along with ancient artifacts of great power. Their angel brothers help when they can, but it’s up to Azrael and Abaddon to persevere and lock the seven deadly sins and Lucifer back into hell. Will they win the war or will they fall in battle? From heaven to hell and everything in between. With an array of characters, traveling all around the world and even to other dimensions, good and evil come head to head. There’s something for everyone. Packed with action and suspense—a thrill ride for sure.

Author : Patricia Murphy
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826273543

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The New Woman Gothic by Patricia Murphy Pdf

Drawing from and reworking Gothic conventions, the New Woman version is marshaled during a tumultuous cultural moment of gender anxiety either to defend or revile the complex character. The controversial and compelling figure of the New Woman in fin de siècle Britishfiction has garnered extensive scholarly attention, but rarely has she been investigated through the lens of the Gothic. Part I, “The Blurred Boundary,” examines an obfuscated distinction between the New Woman and the prostitute, presented in a stunning breadth and array of writings. Part II, “Reconfigured Conventions,” probes four key aspects of the Gothic, each of which is reshaped to reflect the exigencies of the fin de siècle. In Part III, “Villainous Characters,” the bad father of Romantic fiction is bifurcated into the husband and the mother, both of whom cause great suffering to the protagonist.

Author : Patricia Murphy
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791451097

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Time Is of the Essence by Patricia Murphy Pdf

Examines the intricate relationships between time and gender in the novels of five fin-de-siecle British writers--Thomas Hardy, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard, Sarah Grand, and Mona Caird.

Author : Bootheina Majoul,Hanen Baroumi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527579958

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The Poetics and Hermeneutics of Pain and Pleasure by Bootheina Majoul,Hanen Baroumi Pdf

Pain and pleasure are at the heart of human experiences and literary journeys. This book takes the title of Roland Barthes’s text on the pleasure of writing as a starting point for the discussion of other different wor(l)ds and cartographies of pain and pleasure. Set against the Aristotelian delineation of pleasure as the major principle that should govern a literary endeavor, this volume investigates alternative reflections on the themes of pleasure and pain. Thinking about the ways through which expressions of pain and pleasure may affect the writer and the reader as experiences of other pursuits of the human imagination can place or displace, soothe or enrage, and inspire or discourage the individual search for meaning. By engaging with different theories and expressions, it is possible to understand what pain and pleasure have done in the history of humanity, rather than merely looking at them as representations of others’ distant experiences. This volume entails new reflections on the expressions of pain and pleasure to create new meanings for these words in a world vying for expressions of power with and without bliss.

Author : Bridget Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317148449

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Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England by Bridget Walsh Pdf

Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Bridget Walsh traces how the perception of the domestic murderer changed across the nineteenth century and suggests ways in which the public appetite for such crimes was representative of wider social concerns. She argues that the portrayal of domestic murder did not signal a consensus of opinion regarding the domestic space, but rather reflected significant discontent with the cultural and social codes of behaviour circulating in society, particularly around issues of gender and class. Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal documents, broadsides, criminal and scientific writing, illustration and, notably, Victorian melodrama, Walsh focuses on the relationship between the domestic sphere, so central to Victorian values, and the desecration of that space by the act of murder. Her book encompasses the gendered representation of domestic murder for both men and women as it tackles crucial questions related to Victorian ideas of nationhood, national health, political and social inequality, newspaper coverage of murder, unstable and contested models of masculinity and the ambivalent portrayal of the female domestic murderer at the fin de siècle.

Author : Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Brenda Ayres,Karen Yuen,Alexandra Warwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351221689

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New Woman Fiction, 1881-1899, Part I Vol 3 by Carolyn W de la L Oulton,Brenda Ayres,Karen Yuen,Alexandra Warwick Pdf

Contains three early examples of the genre of New Woman writing, each portraying women in ways wholly different to those which had gone before. This title includes "Kith and Kin" (1881), "Miss Brown" and "The Wing of Azrael".

Author : E. Godfrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137284563

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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society by E. Godfrey Pdf

This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.

Author : Leah Grisham
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781648897818

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Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880 by Leah Grisham Pdf

'Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880' shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the author terms the forced marriage plot - a plot arc in which a greedy father tries to force his daughter into a marriage she does not want but that would be financially expedient to himself - to explore capitalism’s detrimental impacts on women’s right to autonomy. As capitalist economic practices replaced mercantilism, a woman’s value was seen primarily in the economic sense. That is, men came to recognize that women – especially young, marriageable women – could be used as objects of exchange between men. Recognizing this phenomenon, the novelists considered in 'Heroic Disobedience' – Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Stone, and Anthony Trollope – depict the very specific ways in which women were raised to become willing pawns in this system. Religious discourse, conduct guides, marriage and property laws, wages, lack of meaningful education, and inheritance practices combined to leave women with no other options besides dependence on their patriarchs. Importantly, authors who use the forced marriage plot go beyond exposing women’s subjugation by creating – and celebrating – heroically disobedient heroines who believe, above all else, that they have the right to determine their own futures: futures in which they are autonomous agents, not subjected objects.