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The Enchanted April
The Enchanted April
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  • This new Oxford World's Classics edition offers detailed explanatory notes, revealing literary and intertextual references, unpacking their significance, and establishing resonances with other texts
  • Scholars are increasingly producing important insights into the work of Elizabeth von Arnim in the context of our wider socio-political and literary understanding
    

'To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine. Small medieval castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let For the month of April, above a bay on the Italian Riviera.'
  
Four very different women—the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester—are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean that April. As each, in turn, blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring and finds their spirits stirring, quite unexpected changes occur.
   
The Enchanted April (1922) is a deceptive and timely novel immured in a post-war context, a period noted for its wistful and sometimes satiric writings. Von Arnim's novel is part of this oeuvre and portrays an escape to a carefully described pastoral enclave away from encroaching urbanisation and the spread of new technologies, in an era when the Great War had left many emotionally and physically starved. The journey to San Salvatore by four unhappy women is an escape from stifling parochialism, constraining social and gendered expectations as well as stultifying insularity, but the evocation of an extraordinarily aesthetic and 'enchanted' location suggests more than personal recuperation.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
  
THE ENCHANTED APRIL
  
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 
 

Elizabeth von Arnim

Edited by Isobel Maddison, University of Cambridge
Isobel Maddison is Fellow Emerita at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, where she was College Lecturer and Director of Studies in English (2007-2021), as well as being Vice President from 2013-2019. She works primarily on the connections between modernism and popular literature. Her publications include Elizabeth von Arnim: Beyond the German Garden (2013). Isobel is a founding member of the International Elizabeth von Arnim Society, and she remains on the steering group and was President of the society between 2015-2019.

Product details

ISBN : 9780198859093

Author: 
Elizabeth von Arnim
Pages
256 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Apr 2022
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The Enchanted April

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The Enchanted April