Format:
234 Seiten
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22 cm
Edition:
Reproduktion Issued also in electronic formats
ISBN:
9781554814930
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1554814936
Series Statement:
Broadview editions
Content:
"Cheerful and pretty, Liza Kemp is popular with her neighbors on Vere Street. She enjoys ordinary working-class pleasures: the music of a barrel-organist, a night at the theater, a Bank Holiday in the country. But when she is drawn to Jim, a married man, and they begin an illicit affair, Liza discovers how tenuous her status is. Once having transgressed the codes of working-class respectability, she suffers ostracism and even violence. Meanwhile, the wider story of Liza of Lambeth reveals how the performance of respectability can ironically co-exist with alcoholism and abuse at home. This Broadview Edition provides the literary and historical contexts vital to readers' understanding and appreciation of the novel. The volume includes appendices on late-Victorian working-class recreations, household management, pregnancy and motherhood, domestic violence, and myths about drunken female 'viragos.'"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
,
Issued also in electronic formats
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1770488588
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965 Liza of Lambeth Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2023 ISBN 1770488588
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781770488588
Language:
English
Author information:
Maugham, William Somerset 1874-1965
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