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作者:LyndallGordon
出版时间:2017-10-26
书籍简介:
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation was her security, each of these women lost hers. They were unconstrained by convention, writing against the grain of their contemporaries, prophetically imagining a different future.
We have long known the individual greatness of each of these writers, but in linking their creativity to their lives as outcasts, Gordon throws new light on the genius they share. All five lost their mothers in childbirth or at a young age. With no female role model present, they learned from books―and sometimes from an enlightened mentor. Crucially, each had to imagine what a woman could be in order to invent a voice of her own. The passion in their own lives infused their fiction. Writing with passionate intelligence of her own, Gordon reveals that these renegade writers inspired a new breed of women who wished to change a world locked in war, violence, exploitation, and sexual abuse.
Gordon's biographies have always shown the indelible connection between life and art: an intuitive, exciting and revealing approach that has been highly praised. In Outsiders, she crafts nuanced portraits of Shelley, Brontë, Eliot, Schreiner and Woolf, naming each of these writers as prodigy, visionary, 'outlaw,' orator, and explorer, and shows how they came, they saw, and they left us changed. Today, following the tsunami of women's protest at widespread abuse, we do more than read them; we listen and live with their astonishing bravery and eloquence.
作者简介:
林德尔•戈登（Lyndall Gordon），1941年生于南非开普敦，美国哥伦比亚大学文学博士，以罗德学者身份前往牛津大学，现为牛津大学圣希尔达学院资深研究员。
胡笑然，北京师范大学外文学院英语系讲师，英国伦敦大学玛丽女王学院英语文学博士。
肖一之，上海外国语大学英语学院讲师，美国布朗大学比较文学博士。
许小凡，北京外国语大学英语学院讲师，英国诺丁汉大学英语文学博士。
