For Better, For Worse (eBook, ePUB)

Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women
Redaktion: Lambert, Carolyn; Shaw, Marion

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines the public discourses around marriage in the 19th century, the legal reforms achieved as a result of public pressure, and the ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the marital relationship, drawing on life writing, journalism, and conduct books.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351855365
• Artikelnr.: 49046697

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Lambert is an independent scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Marion Shaw is Emeritus Professor of English at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Lottery of Marriage



Carolyn Lambert



2. Frances Trollope and the Picaresque Marriage



Carolyn Lambert



3. Imperfect and Alternative Marraiges in Charlotte Yonge's Heartsease and The Clever Woman of the Family



Emily Morris



4. 'Give me Sylvia, or else, I die': Obsession and Revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers



Marion Shaw



5. The Spectacle of 'Crowded' Marriage in Ellen Woods's East Lynne



Frances Twinn



6. 'Could my hero tell lies?': Romance and the Marriage Plot in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh Up as a Flower



Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton



7. Mystical Nationalism and the Rotten Heart of Empire: The Tangled Trope of Marriage in Daniel Deronda



Meredith Miller



8. Margaret Oliphant on Marriage and its Discontents



Joanne Shattock



9. Mrs Henry Wood's Model Men: How to Mismanage Your Marriage in Court Netherleigh



Tamara S. Wagner



10. 'The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect': The Struggle for Divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis's A Flame of Fire

Laura Allen

11. '[T]he chains that gall them' - Marital Violence in the Novels of Florence Marryat

Catherine Pope

12. Marriage in Matriarchy: Matrimony in Women's Utopian Fiction 1888-1909

Rebecca Styler

13. Marriage in Women's Short Fiction



Victoria Margree



14. Marriage, the March of Time and Middlemarch



Marlene Tromp



Appendix A: Marriage 1800-1900: Timeline of Key Dates and Texts