Public Vows : Fictions of Marriage in the English Enlightenment /

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In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously un...

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Main Author: Ganz, Melissa J., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Marriage law.
Marriage in literature.
Law in literature.
English fiction.
Literature and society.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Droit dans la litterature.
Mariage dans la litterature.
Roman anglais > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > England > History > 18th century.
Marriage law > England > History > 18th century.
English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: marriage, law, and the novel
  • Conjugal bonds: freedom and wedlock in Daniel Defoe
  • Nuptial plots: private unions and public pledges in Samuel Richardson
  • "Ah! stop! I consent to what you please!": secret matches and coerced unions in Frances Burney
  • "'Tis our hearts alone that can bind the vow": love and law from Fenwick to Wollstonecraft
  • Epilogue.

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