This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Maia McAleavey is Assistant Professor in the English Department at Boston College. She has published articles on Victorian literature in Representations, Victorian Studies, the Dickens Studies Annual and Victorian Review.
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Introduction Part I. A Wife and Not a Wife: 1. The plot in time: historical bigamy and Sylvia's Lovers 2. The plot in space: skeletons in the closet in Jane Eyre and East Lynne Part II. Dead Yet Not Dead: 3. David Copperfield's angelic bigamy 4. Dorothea's simultaneous remarriage Part III. Sensational and Canonical: 5. Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley's Secret 6. The improper end: Aurora Floyd and Jude the Obscure Coda: the end of bigamy Appendix: list of Victorian bigamy novels Bibliography.
Introduction Part I. A Wife and Not a Wife: 1. The plot in time: historical bigamy and Sylvia's Lovers 2. The plot in space: skeletons in the closet in Jane Eyre and East Lynne Part II. Dead Yet Not Dead: 3. David Copperfield's angelic bigamy 4. Dorothea's simultaneous remarriage Part III. Sensational and Canonical: 5. Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley's Secret 6. The improper end: Aurora Floyd and Jude the Obscure Coda: the end of bigamy Appendix: list of Victorian bigamy novels Bibliography.
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