THE HERITAGE OF GEORGE SAND: MRS HUMPHRY WARD'S THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVE

Autor:	Peter Collister
Rok vydání:	1985
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Psychoanalysis History Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Environmental ethics Language and Linguistics Conscience Human development (humanity) media_common
Zdroj:	The Review of English Studies. :501-521
ISSN:	1471-6968 0034-6551
Popis:	WHEN David Grieve leaves Manchester for France, a copy of Mauprat on his knee, he is embarking upon the most decisive stage of his life, at least in Mrs Ward's evaluating interpretation of growth. The generally more refined reaches of experience which have actively engaged Mary Ward's attention so far and which constitute the human development within her first substantial novel, Robert Elsmere, combining the spiritual with the intellectual tensions of personal self-awareness, give way to a perhaps more courageous enterprise in David Grieve. Her interest has turned to primary human relations-the man and the woman, and human possibilities (though she hardly mentions the word) for sinfulness: sexual licence and conscience overruled by desire. For this liberation and intoxication of the senses Paris is the
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