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by Ellen Glasgow; Afterword by Dorothy M. Scura
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Long before Deborah Tannen began exploring linguistic differences between male and female communication styles, Ellen Glasgow depicted the problem in The Romantic Comedians. Playing on ideas about gender and power through sexual alignments, the novel offers rare feminist insight into relations between the sexes in southern society during the twenties. It is one of the few American comedies of manners written by a woman. In The Romantic Comedians Glasgow takes the familiar story of the cuckold and raises it to a new level. Her sixty-five-year-old male protagonist, the recently widowed Judge Gamaliel Honeywell, falls in love with and marries an impulsive twenty-three-year-old woman, emblem of the 1920s. As the symbol of patriarchy, the Judge espouses all of the chivalrous myths about women, insisting that older women are not interested in love, that a man is only as old as his instincts, and that some young women prefer old lovers to young ones. His sheltered mind allows these delusions about women as it allows him to delude himself.
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- Title The Romantic Comedians
- Author Ellen Glasgow; Afterword by Dorothy M. Scura
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Pages 268
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA
- Publication date 1995
- ISBN 9780813916156 / 0813916151
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.25 x 1 in (20.96 x 13.34 x 2.54 cm)
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects City and town life - Fiction, Richmond (Va.) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95195254
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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