The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Victorian Disability Novel of Aristocratic Inheritance, Country House Tragedy, and Spiritual Unrest
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.12.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
400
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.2 cm
Gewicht
577 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-5904-1
The History of Sir Richard Calmady (1901) is an ambitious late-Victorian novel of inheritance, embodiment, and spiritual unrest. Its hero, Sir Richard Calmady, heir to a great Hampshire estate, is born with severely shortened legs after the fatal accident that kills his father; his quest for dignity, love, and self-knowledge becomes a searching study of disability, class privilege, sexuality, and religious consolation. Malet's prose is lush, analytic, and often symbolist, combining realist social observation with fin-de-siècle psychological intensity and the moral reach of the three-volume tradition. Lucas Malet was the pseudonym of Mary St Leger Kingsley Harrison, daughter of the clergyman-novelist Charles Kingsley. Widowed young and alert to the tensions between Anglican moral culture, aesthetic modernity, and women's constrained authorship, she wrote with unusual sympathy for marginal figures. Her family's intellectual legacy, her experience of social expectation, and her interest in bodily and spiritual suffering inform Richard's story. Recommended for readers of George Eliot, Hardy, and late-Victorian decadence, this novel rewards patience with its emotional force and intellectual seriousness. It is especially valuable for those interested in disability in literature, gendered authorship, and the Victorian novel's transition into modern psychological fiction.
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