The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love A Victorian Romance of Coercive Courtship, Class Conflict, and Domestic Suspense
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Verlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
188
Maße (L/B/H)
1/15,2/22,9 cm
Gewicht
262 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-8881-6
The Spider and the Fly; or, An Undesired Love is a characteristic example of Charles Garvice's late-Victorian popular romance, blending domestic melodrama with the darker patterns of sensation fiction. Its title announces a drama of pursuit and entrapment, in which affection becomes coercion and social vulnerability tests moral resolve. Garvice's prose is direct, fluent, and theatrically paced, designed for serial absorption rather than aesthetic austerity; yet beneath its sentiment lies a shrewd awareness of class, reputation, and the limited choices facing women. Charles Garvice (1850-1920) was among the most widely read English novelists of his generation, producing scores of romances that circulated through magazines, libraries, and cheap editions. His career in mass-market fiction shaped his instinct for suspense, emotional clarity, and recognizably moral conflict. Writing for a broad public hungry for courtship, danger, and consolation, he repeatedly transformed contemporary anxieties about marriage and status into compelling narrative machinery. This novel will appeal to readers interested in popular fiction's forgotten power: its ability to dramatize private feeling as public peril. It is rewarding for students of Victorian and Edwardian romance, sensation fiction, and gendered power. Read it not as escapism, but as a revealing artifact of desire, fear, and commercial storytelling.
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