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S'està carregant… Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages (1983)de Phyllis Rose
   Books Read in 2020 (812) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Must reread before a review is possible (  )  bohemima | Aug 5, 2018 |  john ruskin + effie gray thomas carlyle + jane welsh john stuart mill + harriet taylor charles dickens+ catherine hogarth george eliot(mary ann evans) + george henry lewes (  ) mahallett | Jun 25, 2014 | Rose, a literary scholar, examines the marriages of five famous Victorian authors: Thomas Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin. (As a side note, I find it interested that two of these men are never read today, while three still draw readers. Why?) All of these marriages were miserable in their own quirky ways. Rose explains that she was going to write a chapter of Charles and Emma Darwin, but their marriage was so happy and loving it would have been too boring to write about. One of Rose’s main points is that human relationships and desires are far too idiosyncratic to all fit the monolithic model of marriage. Why, she asks, are we so willing to create our own life narrative and self-identity in every area of our life but marriage? This is especially true for the Victorians. Yet some of the people Rose examines just seemed to be misadjusted by their own neuroses. For example, Charles Dickens crudely shoved his wife aside at mid-age simply for not being good enough any more. This was after she bore him ten children, which apparently was her fault. Or art critic John Ruskin, who never consummated his marriage because a naked woman’s body disgusted him too much. Sometimes it’s not the institution of marriage that’s the problem, but the people who enter into it without self-examination. A really good book - highly recommended - and this coming from someone usually not interested in the Victorian era. ( )1  JDHomrighausen | Mar 30, 2014 | Poor Charles Dickens. He needed a red Ferrari and a Jennifer but they didn't have those then. ( ) dmarsh451 | Mar 31, 2013 | I just read this a second time and loved it as much as the first. I'm thinking it's probably because 1) She's so freaking smart 2) You get to see inside 5 relationships. So intimate! So much dirt! 3) George Elliot's my hero 4) Author links personal to political, role of women in relationships to role of disempowered in society 5) All about power! 6) Get to compare then and now 7) Victorians and their sex habits, always fascinating 8) Ah, the footnotes ( )2 marsJ | Mar 30, 2013 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Phyllis Rose sets out to show that Victorian marriage was likely to have been far more varied, flexible, and even tolerant, than we liberated post-Freudians commonly suppose. Famous literary marriages are examined: that of John Ruskin and Effie Gray was unconsummated; those of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, and John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor, almost certainly were also; the Dickenses' marriage degenerated into melodrama; and the liaison between George Eliot and G.H. Lewes, which scandalized London society, was the happiest of the lot. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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