Name: Miss Marjoribanks: A Victorian Social Comedy of Provincial Ambition, Drawing-Room Strategy, and the Politics of Manners (en Inglés)
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Miss Marjoribanks: A Victorian Social Comedy of Provincial Ambition, Drawing-Room Strategy, and the Politics of Manners (en Inglés)

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22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

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9788028356651

Miss Marjoribanks: A Victorian Social Comedy of Provincial Ambition, Drawing-Room Strategy, and the Politics of Manners (en Inglés)

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Miss Marjoribanks is a brilliant comic study of provincial society, centered on Lucilla Marjoribanks, who returns from school determined to "be a comfort" to her widowed father and to organize the social life of Carlingford. Written with poised irony, intricate social observation, and the controlled amplitude of Victorian realism, the novel transforms drawing-room management into a field of ambition, strategy, and moral comedy. As part of the Carlingford series, it revises the domestic novel by making female agency both practical and intellectually formidable. Mrs. Oliphant, the pen name of Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, was one of the most prolific and perceptive writers of the nineteenth century. Widowed young and supporting her family by her pen, she understood the economics of respectability and the constraints placed upon women with unusual clarity. Her experience informs Lucilla's world, where power is exercised not through public office but through tact, endurance, and social intelligence. This novel is highly recommended to readers interested in Victorian fiction beyond its canonical center. It offers wit, psychological acuity, and a subtle feminist intelligence, rewarding anyone attentive to the politics of manners and the comedy of everyday power.