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A Sentimental Novel
出版SUNY Press, 2004-07-29
主題Fiction / ClassicsHistory / Latin America / GeneralLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN07914614599780791461457
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HXOIVGef99IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Published anonymously in 1773 and attributed to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, this epistolary novel explores the “unfortunate attachment” of Emma Eggerton to William Walpole. Forbidden by her father to marry the man she loves, Emma resigns herself to marrying Walpole, her father’s autocratic choice of a husband. The novel’s other unfortunate attachment concerns Colonel Sutton, who falls prey to the “low” machinations of the confirmed flirt Harriet Courtney. Like Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Georgiana’s Emma explores the dangers of first impressions and arranged marriages, but does so from the vantage point of a woman who would suffer the long-term consequences of both.