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The Pool in the Desert de Sara Jeannette Duncan

The Pool in the Desert

Autor Sara Jeannette Duncan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2011
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783842424036
ISBN-10: 3842424035
Pagini: 214
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Recenzii

In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here—“The Pool in the Desert,” “A Mother in India,” “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”—Duncan’s women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind.

“Readers who enjoy Sara Jeannette Duncan’s artful insights into the manners, coterie culture, and presumptuous biases of Anglo-India will delight in the ironies of these stories. Duncan’s ‘English,’ wrapped up in their institutions and their pride, consider themselves above the ordinary here; while her watchful narrators think they can stand apart from the social emptiness and moral failings they observe, they discover, to their discomfort, that they are part of what they see—as eager for happiness, as susceptible to humiliation, as open to both judgment and understanding” — W.H. New, University of British Columbia
“The Pool in the Desert represents the climate of desire that defined the New Woman, and that animated Sara Jeannette Duncan in her striving for personal and professional achievement. This new edition includes valuable background information which situates the book within the discourses of imperial-colonial politics and of feminist resistance, and as part of the vibrant international context of Canadian writing at the turn of the century.” — Misao Dean, University of Victoria

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In The Pool in the Desert, first published in 1903, Sara Jeannette Duncan explores the impact of isolation on the small British communities of Victorian India. In the four stories collected here—“The Pool in the Desert,” “A Mother in India,” “An Impossible Ideal,” and “The Hesitation of Miss Anderson”—Duncan’s women have certain freedoms living amidst the reaches of Empire, but they also must negotiate their way through a landscape dominated by the constraints of small military societies. The stories that result combine a delicacy of manners and movement that recalls Henry James, with a wit and sharp eye for small town foibles that bring Stephen Leacock to mind.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction (by Rosemary Sullivan)
Sara Jeannette Duncan: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Pool in the Desert
  • The Pool in the Desert
    A Mother in India
    An Impossible Ideal
    The Hesitation of Miss Anderson
Appendix A: Excerpts from A Social Departure
Appendix B: Excerpts from The Crow’s Nest
Appendix C: “The Flippancy of Anglo-India”
Appendix D: Contemporary Reviews
  1. Times Literary Supplement (October 2, 1903)
  2. The Spectator (October 31, 1903)
  3. The Critic
  4. The Athenceum (November 7, 1903)
  5. New York Times (October 31,1903)
  6. The Academy and Literature (October 3, 1903)
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