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Author Schaffer, Talia, 1968- author.

Title Romance's rival : familiar marriage in Victorian fiction / Talia Schaffer.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.8093543 Sch14r 2016    ---  Available
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Description xvi, 334 pages ; 25 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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.
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" -- Provided by publisher.
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. (OCoLC)fst00881885
Domestic fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst00896631
English fiction. (OCoLC)fst00910817
Love in literature. (OCoLC)fst01002808
Marriage in literature. (OCoLC)fst01010607
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Added Title Familiar marriage in Victorian fiction
Marriage in Victorian fiction
ISBN 9780190465094 (cloth : alk. paper)
0190465093 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780190465100 (ebook (updf))
Standard No. 40025877561

 
    
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