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The origins of the English marriage plot : literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century
- Title
- The origins of the English marriage plot : literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century / Lisa O'Connell.
- Author
- O'Connell, Lisa, 1965-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 312 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth-century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focussing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot's engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Historicising the English Marriage Plot -- Church, state and the public politics of marriage -- Clandestine marriage, commerce and the theatre -- New fiction: Samuel Richardson and the Anglican wedding -- Patriot Marriage Plot: Fielding, Shebbeare and Goldsmith -- Literary Marriage Plots: Burney, Austen and Gretna Green -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-11176
- ISBN
- 9781108485685
- 1108485685
- LCCN
- 2019007065
- 40029338898
- OCLC
- 1085951400
- Author
- O'Connell, Lisa, 1965- author.
- Title
- The origins of the English marriage plot : literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century / Lisa O'Connell.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029338898
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-11176