Research Catalog

Title

Peril and protection in British courship novels : a study in continuity and change / Geri Giebel Chavis.

Author

Chavis, Geri Giebel.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2021.

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Details

Description

231 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Peril and Protection in British Courtship Novels: A Study in Continuity and Change explores the use and context of danger/safety language in British courtship novels published between 1719 and 1920. The term 'courtship novel' encompasses works focusing on both female and male protagonists' journeys toward marriage, as well as those reflecting the intertwined nature of comic courtship and tragic seduction scenarios. Through careful tracking of peril and protection terms and imagery within the works of widely read, influential authors, Professor Chavis provides a fresh view of the complex ways that the British novel has both maintained the status quo and embodied cultural change. Lucid discussions of each novel, arranged in chronological order, shed new light on major characters' preoccupations, values, internal struggles, and interactional styles and demonstrate the ways in which gender ideology and social norms governing male-female relationships were note only perpetuated but also challenged and satirized during the course of the British novel's development. Blending close textual analysis with historical/cultural and feminist criticism, this multi-faceted study invites readers to look with both a microscopic lens at the nuances of figurative and literal language and a telescopic lens at the ways in which modifications to views of masculinity and femininity and interactions within the courtship arena inform the novel genre's evolution."

Series Statement

Among the Victorians and Modernists

Uniform Title

Among the Victorians and modernists.

Subject

• 1700-1999
• British literature > 18th century > History and criticism
• British literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• British literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• Courtship
• Courtship > Great Britain > History
• Courtship in literature
• English fiction
• British literature

Genre/Form

• History.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: danger, protection, and gender ideology in courtship novels -- Establishing the traditional courtship novel in the eighteenth century: Haywood, Richardson, and Burney -- Intensifying tradition: gothic courtship novels of Walpole and Radcliffe -- Enriching and mocking tradition: ironic variations in Austen's courtship novels -- Flawed heroes and rescuing heroines: Victorian challenges and adherence to tradition -- Combatants, soul mates, and risky ventures: modernist deconstructions of courtship novel danger in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Reflections on continuity, change, and contemporary trends in courtship fiction.

Call Number

JFE 21-2838

ISBN

• 9780367508999
• 0367508990

LCCN

40030330853

OCLC

1252793291

Author

Chavis, Geri Giebel.

Title

Peril and protection in British courship novels : a study in continuity and change / Geri Giebel Chavis.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Among the Victorians and Modernists

Among the Victorians and modernists.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1700-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40030330853

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2838