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Our daughters must be wives : marriageable young women in the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy

Title
Our daughters must be wives : marriageable young women in the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy / Britta Zangen.
Author
Zangen, Britta, 1947-
Publication
New York : P. Lang, ©2005.

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Description
391 pages; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Feministische Forschungen ; Bd. 2
Uniform Title
Feministische Forschungen ; Bd. 2.
Subject
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Characters > Women
  • Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Characters > Women
  • Eliot, George, 1819-1880 > Characters > Women
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
  • Eliot, George, 1819-1880
  • Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
  • 1800-1899
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Married women in literature
  • Single women in literature
  • Young women in literature
  • Sex role in literature
  • Marriage in literature
  • English fiction
  • Women and literature
  • Women in literature
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-379) and index.
Contents
Part I. The 1840s to the 1870s : socio-historical context -- The effects of the Industrial Revolution on Victorian men ; The costs of capitalism -- The effects of the Industrial Revolution on Victorian women ; Woman's sphere : the home ; The nature of woman ; The leisured lady ; Woman's destiny : marriage ; Spinsters -- Victorian ideology and marriageable girls ; Girls' education ; The girls' future : marriage ; Courtship and engagement -- Part II. The 1840s to the 1870s : fiction -- Charles Dickens and George Eliot -- Dickens: The Pickwick papers ; Oliver Twist ; Nicholas Nickleby ; The Old Curiosity Shop ; Barnaby Rudge ; Martin Chuzzlewit ; Dombey and son ; David Copperfield ; Bleak House ; Hard times ; Little Dorrit ; A tale of two cities ; Great expectations ; Our mutual friend ; The mystery of Edwin Drood -- Eliot: Scenes of clerical life ; Adam Bede ; The mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; Romola ; Felix Holt, the radical ; Middlemarch ; Daniel Deronda -- Part III. The 1870s to the 1890s : socio-historical context -- Women as agents of change ; Independence for unmarried women ; Independence for married women ; The legal position of women ; The new woman -- Attacks on men ; Counter-attacks by men -- The changing ideology and marriageable girls ; Education ; At home -- Part IV. The 1870s to the 1890s : fiction -- Thomas Hardy: Desperate remedies ; Under the greenwood tree ; A pair of blue eyes ; Far from the madding crowd ; The hand of Ethelberta ; The return of the native ; The trumpet-major ; A Laodicean ; Two on the tower ; The Mayor of Casterbridge ; The woodlanders ; Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; The [pursuit of the] well-beloved ; Jude the obscure.
ISBN
  • 3631529767
  • 9783631529768
  • 0820473421
  • 9780820473420
LCCN
2004063205
OCLC
  • ocm56955941
  • 56955941
  • SCSB-14164621
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library