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Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
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"orientally," as morally corrupt and hypersexual. Located at the intersection of race, sex, and class, the case has long been a lightning rod for scholars of cultural studies, women's and gender history, and, given Lillian Hellman's appropriation of Jane's story in her 1934 play The Children's Hour, theater history as well. Frances B. Singh's wide-ranging biography, however, takes a new, psychological approach, putting the notorious case in the context of a life that was marked by loss, separation, abandonment--and resilience.Grounded in archival and genealogical sources never before consulted, Singh's narrative reconstructs Cumming's life from its inauspicious beginnings in a Calcutta orphanage through her schooling in Elgin and Edinburgh, an abusive marriage, her adherence to the Free Church at the time of the Scottish Disruption, and her posthumous life in Hellman's Broadway play. Singh provides a detailed analysis not only of the case itself, but of how both Jane's and her teachers' lives were affected in the aftermath.
Product details
Number of Pages:
358
Release Date:
2020-02-01
Publication Date:
2020-02-02
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1580469558
ISBN13:
9781580469555
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
669 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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