Clarence and Corinne; or God's Way

by Mrs. A. E. Johnson, Hortense J. Spillers (Introduction)

Overview

'Clarence and Corinne' is a novel that reflects the social reform ideology of the U.S. women's movement in the late nineteenth century. It condemns the destructive effects of 'demon' alcohol on the nuclear family, focusing on the danger that alcoholism poses to women and children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052640
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/14/1988
Series:	The ^ASchomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.85(w) x 4.87(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Emory University

Editorial Reviews

"Spillars points out in her introduction that as a 'didactic narrative of the family,' the book fits into the reform programs of the late nineteenth-century women's movement. In a text punctuated with Bible passages and moral aphorisms, the narrative chronicles the gradual process by which alcohol disrupts and destroys the Burton family and makes orphans of the two protagonists. While admits that the novel does not satisfy post-modernist reader expectations for ambiguity and textual complexity, she believes its final exhortation for a new social order is one that readers will find surprisingly contemporary."—The Women's Review of Books

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