No Angels - Defiant Women of Literature
Rebellious Heroines Across Classical Tragedy, Gothic Romance, and Victorian FictionBy George Sand, Eliza Haywood, Honoré de Balzac, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Cleland, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Euripides, Emily Brontë, Lew Tolstoi, William Kirby, Anthony Trollope, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Gustave Flaubert, Alexandre Dumas fils, Maria Edgeworth, George Gissing, Mrs. Olifant
Length342h 16m
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No Angels: Defiant Women of Literature gathers a transhistorical chorus of unruly, ambitious, wounded, and self-determining women. Moving from classical tragedy through the eighteenth-century novel, Romantic and Victorian fiction, French realism, sensation writing, and modern psychological prose, the volume tests the cultural demand that femininity be angelic, passive, or morally transparent. Its selections encompass seduction plots, domestic rebellion, Gothic menace, social satire, illicit desire, and tragic resistance, with especially forceful scenes of women confronting marriage, class, sexual double standards, and public judgment. The contributors form an unusually capacious literary genealogy: dramatists, novelists, satirists, and social observers writing across Greek, French, English, Irish, Russian, and Canadian traditions. Their combined work intersects with realism, Romanticism, the Gothic, sensation fiction, naturalism, and the nineteenth-century marriage plot, while also reaching back to the foundational conflicts of ancient drama. These varied voices reveal how defiance changes meaning across historical periods: it may appear as survival, intellectual independence, erotic agency, revenge, artistic aspiration, or refusal of domestic authority. This anthology is recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and critical breadth. It offers an invaluable opportunity to compare styles, national traditions, and competing visions of women's freedom within one volume. Students and general readers alike will find a rich dialogue among texts that complicates inherited ideals of virtue and invites sustained reflection on gender, power, and literary form.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length342 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Sister Josepha & Other Tales (Annotated)
26LETTER XII.
2Cousin Betty
27LETTER XIII.
3DEDICATION
28LETTER XIV.
4COUSIN BETTY (pt. 1)
29LETTER XV.
5COUSIN BETTY (pt. 2)
30LETTER XVI.
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6COUSIN BETTY (pt. 3)
31LETTER XVII.
7COUSIN BETTY (pt. 4)
32LETTER XVIII.
8COUSIN BETTY (pt. 5)
33LETTER XIX.
9COUSIN BETTY (pt. 6)
34LETTER XX.
10COUSIN BETTY (pt. 7)
35LETTER XXI.
11ADDENDUM
36LETTER XXII.
12Dangerous Liaisons
37LETTER XXIII.
13VOL. I.
38LETTER XXIV.
14PREFACE.
39LETTER XXV.
15LETTER I.
40LETTER XXVI.
16LETTER II.
41LETTER XXVII.
17LETTER III.
42LETTER XXVIII.
18LETTER IV.
43LETTER XXIX.
19LETTER V.
44LETTER XXX.
20LETTER VI.
45LETTER XXXI.
21LETTER VII.
46LETTER XXXII.
22LETTER VIII.
47LETTER XXXIII.
23LETTER IX.
48LETTER XXXIV.
24LETTER X.
49LETTER XXXV.
25LETTER XI.
50LETTER XXXVI.
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