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Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Desiring a formal education, she leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. Unable to meet the demands of her mysterious lover, Lyndall retires to a house in
Bloemfontein, where, delirious with exhaustion, she is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her female nurse. This is the devoted Gregory Rose, Schreiner's daring embodiment of the sensitive New Man.
A cause célèbre when it appeared in London, The Story of an African Farm transformed the shape and course of the late-Victorian novel. From the haunting plains of South Africa's high Karoo, Schreiner boldly addresses her society's greatest fears - the loss of faith, the dissolution of marriage, and women's social and political independence.
發表於2024-12-28
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圖書標籤: 文學 Fiction 英文待購 英國文學 Fictions_of_Empire
For Class. 1880s, 修正瞭我對維多利亞晚期文學的一些偏見。James, Woolf等人的Modernist invention of form可以被推到更早。南非的context有些意思, p.s. Etsy的分析很棒。
評分不是我喜歡的那種 very densely packed didactic monologues 但是Lyndall真是個令人難以忘記的人物
評分一本很殘酷又很美麗的書。 文字中滲透著絕望與痛苦,但在結尾透露著一絲的希望與重生。 兩位主人公都是很難忘的人。 在那地獄般的環境,垂死掙紮。 一個人活瞭,一個人死瞭。 應該說是兩個人都死瞭,一個人齣生瞭。 總而言之,力薦。
評分一本很殘酷又很美麗的書。 文字中滲透著絕望與痛苦,但在結尾透露著一絲的希望與重生。 兩位主人公都是很難忘的人。 在那地獄般的環境,垂死掙紮。 一個人活瞭,一個人死瞭。 應該說是兩個人都死瞭,一個人齣生瞭。 總而言之,力薦。
評分巨大的痛苦,結局寫得很美。sad and powerful
The Story of an African Farm (Penguin Classics) 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載