Romance's rival : familiar marriage in Victorian fiction /

Challenging conventional understandings of the marriage plot in Victorian fiction, Romance's Rival re-reads classic novels by Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and others to shed new light on the consistent tension between erotic desire and familiar security in the love...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Schaffer, Talia
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
Challenging conventional understandings of the marriage plot in Victorian fiction, Romance's Rival re-reads classic novels by Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and others to shed new light on the consistent tension between erotic desire and familiar security in the love matches that occur throughout the period's fiction.
Umfang:
1 online resource (353 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-062751-4
0-19-046511-5
0-19-046510-7
Schlagworte:
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Marriage in literature.
Courtship in literature.
Love in literature.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
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