By E. F. Benson
With an advent and Notes via Dr Keith Carabine, college of Kent at Canterbury.
Lucia is among the nice comedian characters in English literature. Outrageously pretentious, hypocritical and snobbish, Queen Lucia, ‘as by way of correct divine’ ideas over the toy state of ‘Riseholme’ in line with the Cotswold village of Broadway. Her long-suffering husband Pepino is ‘her prince-consort’, the outrageously camp Georgie is her ‘gentleman-in-waiting’, the village eco-friendly is her ‘parliament’, and her matters, equivalent to Daisy Quantock, are hapless would-be ‘Bolsheviks’.
In Lucia in London, the prudish, manically formidable Lucia launches herself into the louche global of London society. Her earnest choice to benefit all approximately ‘modern movements’ makes her the correct comedian car for Benson’s free-wheeling satire of salon society, and of the dominant fads and routine of the Twenties, together with vegetarianism, yoga, palmistry, Freudianism, séances, Post-Impressionist artwork and Christian Science.
Meanwhile in Tilling, in actual fact modelled on Benson’s domestic city of Rye, pass over Mapp fed on by means of ‘chronic rage and curiosity’ sits at her window, armed along with her light-opera glasses protecting baleful watch on her neighbours. ‘Anger and the gravest suspicions approximately everyone had saved her younger and at the boil’: and Benson transmutes her boiling right into a sequence of small humiliations in his witty, malicious comedy.
In his insightful advent Keith Carabine indicates that those books are excruciatingly humorous simply because Benson, like Jane Austen, invitations the reader to view the realm during the self-deluded fabrications and day-dreams of Lucia and the self-deluded continual anger and jaundiced suspicions of Elisabeth.
Carabine additionally concentrates at the novels’ hectic, bitchy, ‘camp’ humour every time ‘that horrid factor which Freud calls sex’ is raised.
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