Introduction: realism and the value of marriage on an American scene -- Conversion, marriage, and realism in Emma Kelley's Megda and Kate Chopin's The awakening -- Marriage on the "color line" in Frances Harper's Lola Leroy and William Dean Howells' An imperative duty -- Realism, romance, and questions of marital eligibility in Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces and Edith Warton's The house of mirth -- Conclusion: realist delineations of married life.
Summary:
American Realist Fictions of Marriage' intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode of narration for fictive constructions of marriage and the race, gender, and class upheavals these depictions of marriage represent.
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