Drawing on a wide range of English and French fiction and advice literature, this study analyzes the problems of representation that emerge in light of the changing definition of marriage from one of hierarchy to companionship in the eighteenth century. Ranging from representations of ideal domesticity to the problems of intimacy and marital discontent, Roulston explores the paradox of the modern marriage as both utopian and unlivable, and expands the debate around its evolution.
Drawing on a wide range of English and French fiction and advice literature, this study analyzes the problems of representation that emerge in light of the changing definition of marriage from one of hierarchy to companionship in the eighteenth century. Ranging from representations of ideal domesticity to the problems of intimacy and marital discontent, Roulston explores the paradox of the modern marriage as both utopian and unlivable, and expands the debate around its evolution.
Chris Roulston is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and French Studies at the University of Western Ontario. She is also the author of Virtue, Gender and the Authentic Self in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1 Advice Literature and the Meaning of Marriage Chapter 2 Accounting for Marriage Chapter 3 Marriage and the Colonial Imagination Chapter 4 Disruptive Wives and the Balance of Power Chapter 5 Narrating Wife-Abuse Chapter 6 Having It Both Ways? The Eighteenth-Century Ménage-à-Trois Chapter 101 Conclusion
Introduction Chapter 1 Advice Literature and the Meaning of Marriage Chapter 2 Accounting for Marriage Chapter 3 Marriage and the Colonial Imagination Chapter 4 Disruptive Wives and the Balance of Power Chapter 5 Narrating Wife-Abuse Chapter 6 Having It Both Ways? The Eighteenth-Century Ménage-à-Trois Chapter 101 Conclusion
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