Cometh Up as a Flower Paperback / softback
by Rhoda Broughton
Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert
Part of the Broadview Editions series
Paperback / softback
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An important sensation novel, Cometh Up as a Flower made Rhoda Broughton's reputation and fortune while also attracting harsh criticism.
Nell LeStrange, the heroine, is torn between duty to her family and her own passion.
What angered critics of the time was the heroine's frank discussion of her sexual attraction to her lover, and her dispassionate evaluation of loveless marriage as a form of self-sale.
Broughton's lively, colloquial narrative voice, witty observations of contemporary manners, and sympathetic portrayal of the lives and feelings of young women, though no longer shocking, are as engaging now as they were to her readers of 1867. This Broadview Edition includes an extensive selection of appendices on the novel's reception (including a parody of Broughton), Victorian discourses on health and medicine, and contemporary attitudes towards women, marriage, and sexuality.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2010
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- ISBN:9781551118055
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:416 pages
- Publisher:Broadview Press Ltd
- Publication Date:30/03/2010
- Category:
- ISBN:9781551118055
