Romance's rival : familiar marriage in Victorian fiction /

Romance's rival : familiar marriage in Victorian fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schaffer, Talia, 1968- author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xvi, 334 pages ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Marriage in literature. Courtship in literature. Love in literature. Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism. Courtship in literature. Domestic fiction, English. English fiction. Love in literature. Marriage in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10532933

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Varying Form of Title:	Familiar marriage in Victorian fiction Marriage in Victorian fiction
ISBN:	9780190465094 0190465093 9780190465100
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
Summary:	"Academic study about marriage and courtship in the Victorian novel. It discusses works by Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Yonge, and Margaret Oliphant, among others"--

Table of Contents:

Theorizing Victorian marriage
Historicizing marriage, developing the marriage plot
Neighbor marriage: loving the squire
Cousin marriage: reading on the contrary
Disability marriage: communities of care in the Victorian novel
Vocational marriage, or, why marriage doesn't work.