The bigamy plot : sensation and convention in the Victorian novel /
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| Author / Creator: | McAleavey, Maia, 1981- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
| Description: | x, 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 100 Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 100. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10299822 |
Table of Contents:
- A wife and not a wife. The plot in time: historical bigamy and Sylvia's lovers; The plot in space: skeletons in the closet in Jane Eyre and East Lynne
- Dead yet not dead. David Copperfield's angelic bigamy; Dorothea's simultaneous remarriage
- Sensational and canonical. Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley's secret; The improper end: Aurora Floyd and Jude the obscure
- Coda: the end of bigamy
- Appendix: list of Victorian bigamy novels.
