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Bezig met laden... The Romance of a Shop (origineel 1888; editie 2021)door Amy Levy (Auteur), Mint Editions (Medewerker)
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The Romance of a Shopis an early "New Woman" novel about four sisters, who decide to establish their own photography business and their own home in central London after their father's death and their loss of financial security. In this novel, Amy Levy examines both the opportunities and dangers of urban experience for women in the late nineteenth century who pursue independent work rather than follow the established paths of domestic service. By outfitting her characters as photographers, Levy emphasizes the importance of the gendered gaze in this narrative of the modern city. This Broadview edition prints for the first time since the 1880s Levy's essay on Christina Rossetti and a short story set in North London, both published in Oscar Wilde's magazine The Woman's World. Other appendices include poetry by Levy, Michael Field, Dollie Radford, and A. Mary F. Robinson, and essays on Victorian photography, literary realism, "the woman question" at the end of the nineteenth century, and the plight of women working in London. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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After the passing of their father, four girls decide to unite their efforts and open a photographic studio in London rather than wait for fate and society to take them. They meet many obstacles before they attain their goal, first among which is the prurience of the society they are leaving.
However, as the chapters roll on by, this becomes less a novel about women at work, and more traditionally about women seeking marriage; anyone who has read more than one novel by Jane Austen will see the twists and turns coming a mile off. This is a shame, as a book firmly committed to independent women running a photographer's studio would have been even more fascinating than what we have here. That said, there is only so much liberal thinking one can expect in a novel of its time, and without books such as this we might not have had the great emancipation movements that followed. ( )