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Author:   Carolyn Lambert (University of Brighton, UK) ,  Marion Shaw (Loughborough University, UK) ,  Frances Twinn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138285644

ISBN 10:   1138285641
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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Carolyn Lambert is an independent scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK. Marion Shaw is Emeritus Professor of English at Loughborough University, UK.

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