The Romantic Comedians

Download or read book The Romantic Comedians written by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow and published by S.B. Gundy. This book was released on 1926 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Ellen 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.