num_pages: 466
description: "Commentators once dismissed The Three Perils of Woman as a bad book because it trampled on the flowerbeds of early-nineteenth-century decorum; they now acclaim it a masterpiece for the very same reason, reading subversive craft in the place of oafishness."Ian Duncan, Studies in Hogg and his WorldThe two stories in The Three Perils of Woman are generically diverse and self-consciously impure. Hogg described them as 'domestic tales', apparently soliciting a female readership whose delicacy he then assaults with speculations about promiscuity and prostitution, and with prayers so chattily informal that reviewers found them blasphemous. Both stories modulate suddenly from comedy to tragedy, though one - but which? - struggles through to what may be a happy ending.What matters about The Three Perils of Woman is not the conclusions it has to offer about the issues it raises, but the fact that these are addressed with such painful urgency. They have become urgent once again, and will continue to be so.
language: English
title: The Three Perils of Woman
titlecomplete: The Three Perils of Woman
ratings_count: 15
places: Culloden Moor, Inverness-shire, Scotland, Scotland
publisher: Edinburgh University Press