Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser.: For Better, for Worse : Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women by Marion Shaw (2017, Hardcover)

Routledge

1138285641

9781138285644

234323117

Marion Shaw

For Better, for Worse : Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women

Hardcover

English

Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Ser.

2017

Textbook

218 Pages

9.1in

0.7in

6.3in

16 Oz

Pr878.M36f68 2017

1. Introduction: The Lottery of Marriage Carolyn Lambert 2. Frances Trollope and the Picaresque Marriage Carolyn Lambert 3. Imperfect and Alternative Marraiges in Charlotte Yonge's Heartsease and The Clever Woman of the Family Emily Morris 4. 'Give me Sylvia, or else, I die': Obsession and Revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers Marion Shaw 5. The Spectacle of 'Crowded' Marriage in Ellen Woods's East Lynne Frances Twinn 6. '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 7. Mystical Nationalism and the Rotten Heart of Empire: The Tangled Trope of Marriage in Daniel Deronda Meredith Miller 8. Margaret Oliphant on Marriage and its Discontents Joanne Shattock 9. Mrs Henry Wood's Model Men: How to Mismanage Your Marriage in Court Netherleigh Tamara S. Wagner 10. 'The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect': The Struggle for Divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis's A Flame of Fire Laura Allen 11. '[T]he chains that gall them' - Marital Violence in the Novels of Florence Marryat Catherine Pope 12. Marriage in Matriarchy: Matrimony in Women's Utopian Fiction 1888-1909 Rebecca Styler 13. Marriage in Women's Short Fiction Victoria Margree 14. Marriage, the March of Time and Middlemarch Marlene Tromp Appendix A: Marriage 1800-1900: Timeline of Key Dates and Texts

2017

College Audience

Women Authors, Modern / 19th Century, Subjects & Themes / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

2017-021949

Literary Criticism