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Joinings and disjoinings : the significance of marital status in literature

Title
Joinings and disjoinings : the significance of marital status in literature / edited by JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward.
Publication
Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1991], ©1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Mink, JoAnna Stephens.
  • Ward, Janet Doubler.
Description
173 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Joinings & disjoinings.
Subject
  • English literature > History and criticism
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Literature and society > English-speaking countries
  • Marriage in literature
Note
  • Spine title: Joinings & disjoinings.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • Love and death in Chaucer's The book of the duchess / Patricia Prandini Buckler -- Marriage in Goldsmith : the single woman, feminine space, and "virtue" / Christopher K. Brooks -- The symbol of the androgyne in Blake's The four Zoas and Shelley's Prometheus unbound : marital status among the romantic poets / Patrick Bizzaro -- Real lives : didactic realism in antebellum marital fiction / Thomas H. Fick -- Text and context in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall : from widowhood to independence / Joyce W. Warren -- "To be wise herself" : the widowing of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch / Richard D. McGhee -- Marriage of partnership : Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian androgynous ideal / Laurie Buchanan -- "The web of self-strangulation" : mothers, daughters and the question of marriage in the short stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman / Mary R. Reichardt.
  • Peter Altenberg : the "radical bachelor" / Pamela S. Saur -- Proving one's worth : the importance of marriage in the world of Barbara Pym / Katherine Anne Ackley -- The dismembered couple : Krapp's last tape and Happy days / Mary F. Catanzaro -- July's people : she knew no word / Stefanie Dojka.
ISBN
  • 0879725230 (clothbound)
  • 0879725249 (paperback)
LCCN
91070903
OCLC
ocm24262770
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries