Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
Contents
The renegotiation of marriage in nineteenth-century fiction and culture -- Caroline Hentz's "little counterplot" in the Old South -- Augusta Evans : ambition and the refinement of the Southern double proposal -- Domesticating the "women's rights woman" in Laura Curtis Bullard's and D. E. N. Southworth's Antebellum double-proposal novels -- Courtship in the arena of Civil War : Southworth's Britomarte, the man-hater -- Professional women and traditional wedlock : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's narrative negotiations.
