Escapade - Softcover

Scott, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813916410 ISBN 13: 9780813916415

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 1995

Synopsis

In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn- later to be known as Evelyn Scott- turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Evelyn Scott with the raw material for a singular work of fictionalized autobiography. That work, published in 1923 amid expressions of mingled outrage and admiration from the critical establishment, was Escapade.This new edition is enhanced by a thoughtful and appreciative critical afterword by Dorothy M. Scura that illuminates both the structure of the book and the beauty of its language while placing Scott within the continuum of feminist writers.

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About the Author

Evelyn Scott was born in 1893 in Clarksvile, Tennessee. Her other books include The Narrow House; Narcissus; Background in Tennessee; and The Wave. Dorothy M. Scura is Professor of English at the University of Tennessee. Her edited books include Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives and Ellen Glasgow: The Contemporary Reviews.

From the Back Cover

In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn - later to be known as Evelyn Scott - turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Evelyn Scott with the raw material for a singular work of fictionalized autobiography. That work, published in 1923 amid expressions of mingled outrage and admiration from the critical establishment, was Escapade. While offering a chronicle of the runaways' Brazilian interlude, Escapade is a tale both literary and autobiographical, filled with striking imagery and written in a style that is audacious and extraordinary modern. Indeed, in many ways the book anticipates Scott's 1929 modernist masterpiece The Wave, widely considered to be one of the greatest Civil War novels ever written. Though present-day readers are unlikely to be shocked by the adulterous liaison depicted here, they will find much of interest - and much to admire - in this spare but beautiful account of one woman's daring rejection of the mores of her time.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813916410
• ISBN 13: 9780813916415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 321