Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher)
2. Shaw, Marion

Description

1. vi, 217 pages; 24 cm

Series statement

1. Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28

Uniform title

1. Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28.

Subject

1. 1800-1899
2. Marriage in literature
3. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
4. English fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
5. English fiction
6. English fiction > Women authors
7. Ehe Motiv
8. Englisch
9. Frauenroman
10. Frauenliteratur

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: the lottery of marriage / Carolyn Lambert -- Frances Trollope and the picaresque marriage / Carolyn Lambert -- Imperfect and alternative marraiges in Charlotte Yonge's Heartsease and The clever woman of the family / Emily Morris -- "Give me Sylvia, or else, I die": obsession and revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers / Marion Shaw -- The spectacle of "crowded" marriage in Ellen Woods's East Lynne / Frances Twinn -- "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 -- Mystical nationalism and the rotten heart of empire: the tangled trope of marriage in Daniel Deronda / Meredith Miller -- Margaret Oliphant on marriage and its discontents / Joanne Shattock -- Mrs Henry Wood's Model men: how to mismanage your marriage in Court Netherleigh / Tamara S. Wagner -- "The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect": the struggle for divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis's A flame of fire / Laura Allen -- Marriage in matriarchy: matrimony in women's utopian fiction 1888-1909 / Rebecca Styler -- Marriage in women's short fiction / Victoria Margree -- Marriage, the march of time and Middlemarch / Marlene Tromp.

Call number

1. JFE 18-893

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. For better, for worse : marriage in Victorian novels by women / edited by Carolyn Lambert and Marion Shaw.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28
2. Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 28.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1800-1899

Added author

1. Lambert, Carolyn (College teacher), editor.
2. Shaw, Marion, editor.

LCCN

1. 2017021949

ISBN

1. 9781138285644 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1138285641 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 18-893