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For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women book cover

1st Edition

For Better, For Worse Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women

Edited By Carolyn Lambert, Marion Shaw Copyright 2018
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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This interdisciplinary volume explores the fictional portrayal of marriage by women novelists between 1800 and 1900. It investigates the ways in which these novelists used the cultural form of the novel to engage with and contribute to the wider debates of the period around the fundamental cultural and social building block of marriage. The collection provides an important contribution to the... Read more

1. Introduction: The Lottery of Marriage



Carolyn Lambert



2. Frances Trollope and the Picaresque Marriage



Carolyn Lambert



3. Imperfect and Alternative Marraiges in Charlotte Yonge’s Heartsease and The Clever Woman of the Family



Emily Morris



4. ‘Give me Sylvia, or else, I die’: Obsession and Revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers



Marion Shaw



5. The Spectacle of ‘Crowded’ Marriage in Ellen Woods’s East Lynne



Frances Twinn



6. ‘Could my hero tell lies?’: Romance and the Marriage Plot in Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower



Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton



7. Mystical Nationalism and the Rotten Heart of Empire: The Tangled Trope of Marriage in Daniel Deronda



Meredith Miller



8. Margaret Oliphant on Marriage and its Discontents



Joanne Shattock



9. Mrs Henry Wood’s Model Men: How to Mismanage Your Marriage in Court Netherleigh



Tamara S. Wagner



10. ‘The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect’: The Struggle for Divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis’s A Flame of Fire



Laura Allen



11. ‘[T]he chains that gall them’ – Marital Violence in the Novels of Florence Marryat



Catherine Pope





12. Marriage in Matriarchy: Matrimony in Women’s Utopian Fiction 1888-1909



Rebecca Styler





13. Marriage in Women’s Short Fiction



Victoria Margree



14. Marriage, the March of Time and Middlemarch



Marlene Tromp



Appendix A: Marriage 1800-1900: Timeline of Key Dates and Texts

Biography

Carolyn Lambert is an independent scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK.





Marion Shaw is Emeritus Professor of English at Loughborough University, UK.

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