Maia Mcaleavey

The Bigamy Plot

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Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781107501348
• ISBN-10: 1107501342
• Artikelnr.: 43759120

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.