基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：416 页
出版日期：1994年08月
ISBN：0140433791
条形码：9780140433791
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：嫁不出去的女人

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George Gissing's The Odd Women dramatizes key issues relating to class and gender in late-Victorian culture: the changing relationship between the sexes, the social impact of 'odd' or 'redundant' women, the cultural impact of 'the new woman,' and the opportunities for and conditions of employment in the expanding service sector of the economy. At the heart of these issues as many late Victorians saw them was a problem of the imbalance in the ratio of men to women in the population. There were more females than males, which meant that more and more women would be left unmarried; they would be 'odd' or 'redundant,' and would be forced to be independent and to find work to support themselves. In the Broadview edition, Gissing's text is carefully annotated and accompanied by a range of documents from the period that help to lay out the context in which the book was written.

In Gissing's story, Virginia Madden and her two sisters are confronted upon the death of their father with sudden impoverishment. Without training for employment, and desperate to maintain middle-class respectability, they face a daunting struggle. In Rhoda Nunn, a strong feminist, Gissing also presents a strong character who draws attention overtly to the issues behind the novel. The Odd Women is one of the most important social novels of the late nineteenth century. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
作者简介 Arlene Young is Executive Assistant the the President and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba. Since receiving her PhD from Cornell University she has published widely on British and American nineteenth-century fiction; her Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women is forthcoming from Macmillan/St. Martin's Press. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
编辑推荐 Stephen Arata, University of Virginia
"In Arlene Young’s carefully edited and annotated edition, we have the definitive guide to Gissing’s novel." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.