UID:
almafu_9959242081302883
Format:
1 online resource (217 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-61148-527-4
Series Statement:
Transits. Literature, Thought & Culture
Content:
The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Eighteenth-Century Marriage in Crisis?; CHAPTER 1. INTIMACY, IDENTITY, AND MARITAL CHOICE: The Osborne-Temple Correspondence; CHAPTER 2. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Power of Self-Fashioning; CHAPTER 3. HESTER CHAPONE AS A LIVING CLARISSA IN LETTERS ON FILIAL OBEDIENCE AND A MATRIMONIAL CREED; CHAPTER 4. "PERFECT FRIENDSHIP": Mary Delany, Companionacy, and Control; CHAPTER 5. DUTY AND SENTIMENT IN SARAH SCOTT'S THE TEST OF FILIAL DUTY; CHAPTER 6. ELIZA HAYWOOD: The Limits of Feminine Agency; AFTERWORD. From Clarissa Harlowe to Elizabeth Bennet; NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-705-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61148-526-6
Language:
English
Keywords:
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