A Modern Mephistopheles, and A Whisper in the Dark Faustian Ambition, Female Confinement, and Victorian Gothic Suspense
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
120
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.9 cm
Gewicht
270 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4111-4
A Modern Mephistopheles, paired with A Whisper in the Dark, reveals Louisa May Alcott's startling command of the gothic and sensation modes that flourished beneath Victorian respectability. The former recasts the Faust legend as a psychological drama of ambition, artistic dependence, and moral corruption, while the latter turns on confinement, inheritance, and threatened female sanity. Written in taut, melodramatic prose, these works belong to the darker literary world of Wilkie Collins, Hawthorne, and Poe rather than the domestic realism for which Alcott is best known. Alcott's authorship was shaped by financial necessity, intellectual restlessness, and the reformist atmosphere of her Transcendentalist upbringing. Before and alongside Little Women, she wrote anonymous and pseudonymous thrillers that allowed her to explore power, desire, coercion, and rebellion with unusual boldness. Her knowledge of women's legal and social vulnerability gives these tales their urgency, while her moral seriousness prevents them from becoming mere entertainments. This volume is recommended to readers who wish to encounter the shadowed Alcott: experimental, ironic, and psychologically acute. It will especially reward those interested in nineteenth-century gothic fiction, women's authorship, and the hidden tensions within domestic culture.
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