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For better, for worse : marriage in Victorian novels by women

Title
For better, for worse : marriage in Victorian novels by women / edited by Carolyn Lambert and Marion Shaw.
Publication
  • New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher)
  • Shaw, Marion
Description
vi, 217 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28
Uniform Title
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Marriage in literature
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
  • English fiction
  • English fiction > Women authors
  • Ehe Motiv
  • Englisch
  • Frauenroman
  • Frauenliteratur
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: the lottery of marriage / Carolyn Lambert -- Frances Trollope and the picaresque marriage / Carolyn Lambert -- Imperfect and alternative marraiges in Charlotte Yonge's Heartsease and The clever woman of the family / Emily Morris -- "Give me Sylvia, or else, I die": obsession and revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers / Marion Shaw -- The spectacle of "crowded" marriage in Ellen Woods's East Lynne / Frances Twinn -- "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 -- Mystical nationalism and the rotten heart of empire: the tangled trope of marriage in Daniel Deronda / Meredith Miller -- Margaret Oliphant on marriage and its discontents / Joanne Shattock -- Mrs Henry Wood's Model men: how to mismanage your marriage in Court Netherleigh / Tamara S. Wagner -- "The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect": the struggle for divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis's A flame of fire / Laura Allen -- Marriage in matriarchy: matrimony in women's utopian fiction 1888-1909 / Rebecca Styler -- Marriage in women's short fiction / Victoria Margree -- Marriage, the march of time and Middlemarch / Marlene Tromp.
Call Number
JFE 18-893
ISBN
  • 9781138285644
  • 1138285641
LCCN
2017021949
OCLC
993134376
Title
For better, for worse : marriage in Victorian novels by women / edited by Carolyn Lambert and Marion Shaw.
Publisher
New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Added Author
Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher), editor.
Shaw, Marion, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-893
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