The Romantic Comedians
by:
Ellen Glasgow (author)
In The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new leve. Her sixty-five-year-old male protagonist, the recently widowed Judge Gamaliel Honeywell, falls in love with and marries an impulsive twenty-three-year-old woman, emblem of the 1920s. As...
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In The Romantic Comedians Ellen Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new leve. Her sixty-five-year-old male protagonist, the recently widowed Judge Gamaliel Honeywell, falls in love with and marries an impulsive twenty-three-year-old woman, emblem of the 1920s. As the symbol of patriarchy, the Judge espouses all of the chivalrous myths about women, insisting that older women are not interested in love, that a man is only as old as his instincts, and that some young women prefer old lovers to young ones. His sheltered mind allows these dillusions about women as it allows him to delude himself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780813916156 (0813916151)
ASIN: 813916151
Publish date: March 29th 1995
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Pages no: 268
Edition language: English
bookshelves: published-1926, women, north-americas, under-20, spring-2013, winter-20142015 Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Judy Bainbridge Read from February 07, 2013 to December 13, 2014 Description: Long before Deborah Tannen began exploring linguistic differences between male and female communi...
Afterword by Dorothy M ScuraPreface: This tragicomedy of a happiness-hunter was written, as an experiment, for my own entertainment. E.G.Opening: For thirty-six years Judge Gamaliel Bland Honeywell had endured the double-edged bliss of a perfect marriage; but it seemed to him, on this sparkling East...
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