"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 d...

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1. Verfasser:	Maugham, William Somerset 1874-1965 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Maltz, Diana 1965- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Peterborough, Ontario Broadview Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Broadview editions
Schlagworte:	Maugham, William Somerset > 1874-1965 Maugham, W. Somerset / (William Somerset) / 1874-1965 / Criticism and interpretation Maugham, W. Somerset / (William Somerset) / 1874-1965 / https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrcpMrFw6WQDJRh3WF3Qq Criticism, interpretation, etc Novels Romans Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	"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.'"--
Beschreibung:	234 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:	9781554814930