Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-313) and index.
Contents:
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.
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