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03255aam a2200409 i 4500 001 C50B878C1D7611EA83B92C1397128E48 003 SILO 005 20191213010258 008 190404t20192019enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019007065 020 $a 1108485685 020 $a 9781108485685 035 $a (OCoLC)1085951400 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d YDX $d IUL $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR858.M36 $b O36 2019 082 00 $a 823/.5093543 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a O'Connell, Lisa, $d 1965- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003099434 245 14 $a The origins of the English marriage plot : $b literature, politics and religion in the eighteenth century / $c Lisa O'Connell. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 312 pages : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Historicising the English Marriage Plot -- 1. Church, State and the Public Politics of Marriage -- 2. Clandestine Marriage, Commerce and the Theatre -- 3. The New Fiction: Samuel Richardson and the Anglican Wedding -- 4. The Patriot Marriage Plot: Fielding, Shebbeare and Goldsmith -- 5. Literary Marriage Plots: Burney, Austen and Gretna Green -- Afterword. 520 $a "Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth-century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focussing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot's engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103099 650 0 $a Marriage in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081506 650 0 $a Marriage customs and rites in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006161 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Marriage customs and rites in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010597 650 7 $a Marriage in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01010607 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191213014709.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C50B878C1D7611EA83B92C1397128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search