Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 255 pages)
ISBN:
9781442627727
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1442627727
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1282045539
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9781282045538
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9786612045530
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6612045531
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1442677244
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9781442677241
Inhalt:
Married love and its consequences -- Virtuous libertines and liberated virgins : Sir Charles Grandison -- "No small part of a woman's portion" : love, duty, and society in Persuasion -- Feminism and contract theory in He knew he was right -- Margaret Oliphant's women who want too much -- Liberalism and feminism : the end of the line.
Inhalt:
"In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the reevaluation of women's place within society. Because this new progressive form of marriage was based on emotion rather than considerations of status or money, it challenged the hierarchical status quo of English society that the traditional patriarchal marriage had upheld." "In Consensual Fictions, Wendy S. Jones focuses on the English novel of the period to explore the relationship between married love, classic liberal thought, and novelistic form. Jones argues that these works of fiction use the multiplot form to explore the specific set of cultural problems associated with the ways in which liberalism reconceived marriage, love, and gender by exploring alternative resolutions to cultural problems through different narrative lines."--Jacket
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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English
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ISBN 0802087175
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ISBN 9780802087171
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ISBN 0802087175
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ISBN 9780802087171
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 0802087175
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ISBN 9780802087171
Sprache:
Englisch
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