High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels
Courtship, Scandal, Inheritance, and Class Ambition in Gilded Age SocietyBy Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gene Stratton-Porter, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Louisa May Alcott, Guy de Maupassant, Mrs. Oliphant, Alexandre Dumas fils, Edmund Yates, Robert Barr, Booth Tarkington, Albert Ross, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Leo Tolstoy, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, George William Curtis, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Henry James, Mrs. Alexander, Horatio Alger, David Graham Phillips, Theodore Dreiser, Anna Katharine Green, Grace Livingston Hill, Wilkie Collins, Mary Augusta Ward, George Meredith, George Gissing
Length710h 48m
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High Society Romance: 40 Gilded Age Novels surveys the glittering yet precarious world of wealth, marriage, inheritance, and social ambition across a broad transatlantic canon. Its selections range from drawing-room comedy and sentimental courtship to psychological realism, sensation fiction, social satire, and morally searching domestic drama. Beneath scenes of balls, country houses, fashionable resorts, and carefully brokered engagements, the volume exposes tensions of class mobility, gendered constraint, commercial power, and the costs of respectability. The anthology's variety makes aristocratic and bourgeois romance alike a lens on modern social change. Bringing together writers associated with American regionalism, Victorian realism, French naturalism, Russian moral fiction, popular romance, and the late-nineteenth-century novel of manners, the collection demonstrates how capacious "high society" could be as a literary subject. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, and their contemporaries represent sharply different national traditions and readerships. Yet their converging attention to marriage markets, money, reputation, and desire situates these works within the cultural upheavals surrounding the Gilded Age and its international equivalents. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a comparative introduction to social fiction and romance. It offers an unusual opportunity to trace recurring plots across divergent styles while observing how each work revises the assumptions of its neighbors. Students, scholars, and general readers will find in these novels a rich conversation about intimacy, status, and the changing architecture of modern life.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length710 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Well of Loneliness & Carmilla (Annotated)
26Suzanne
2Sister Carrie
27Divorce
3Chapter I (pt. 1)
28The Final Plot
4Chapter I (pt. 2)
29Attainment
5Chapter I (pt. 3)
30That Lass O' Lowrie's
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6Chapter I (pt. 4)
31CHAPTER I - A Difficult Case
7Chapter I (pt. 5)
32CHAPTER III - The Reverend Harold Barholm
8Chapter I (pt. 6)
33CHAPTER VI - Joan and the Child
9Chapter I (pt. 7)
34CHAPTER XI - Nib and His Master Make a Call
10Chapter I (pt. 8)
35CHAPTER XVI - “Owd Sammy” in Trouble
11Bel Ami, or the History of a Scoundrel
36CHAPTER XXI - Derrick's Question
12Poverty
37CHAPTER XXVI - The Package Returned
13Madame Forestier
38CHAPTER XXXI - The Last Blow
14First Attempts
39CHAPTER XXXVI - Alive Yet
15Duroy Learns Something
40CHAPTER XLIII - Liz Comes Back
16The First Intrigue
41The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life
17A Step Upward
42BOOK I.
18A Duel With An End
43V.
19Death And A Proposal
44X.
20Marriage
45XIII.
21Jealousy
46XV.
22Madame Walter Takes A Hand
47XVIII.
23A Meeting And The Result
48BOOK III.
24Madame Marelle
49XXVII.
25The Will
50XXXII.
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