For Better, for Worse - Marriage in Victorian Novels By Women

List of contents

1. Introduction: The Lottery of Marriage
Carolyn Lambert
2. Frances Trollope and the Picaresque Marriage
Carolyn Lambert
3. Imperfect and Alternative Marraiges in Charlotte Yonge’s Heartsease and The Clever Woman of the Family
Emily Morris
4. ‘Give me Sylvia, or else, I die’: Obsession and Revulsion in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers
Marion Shaw
5. The Spectacle of ‘Crowded’ Marriage in Ellen Woods’s East Lynne
Frances Twinn
6. ‘Could my hero tell lies?’: Romance and the Marriage Plot in Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower
Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
7. Mystical Nationalism and the Rotten Heart of Empire: The Tangled Trope of Marriage in Daniel Deronda
Meredith Miller
8. Margaret Oliphant on Marriage and its Discontents
Joanne Shattock
9. Mrs Henry Wood’s Model Men: How to Mismanage Your Marriage in Court Netherleigh
Tamara S. Wagner
10. ‘The laws themselves must be wicked and imperfect’: The Struggle for Divorce in Mary Eliza Haweis’s A Flame of Fire
Laura Allen
11. ‘[T]he chains that gall them’ – Marital Violence in the Novels of Florence Marryat
Catherine Pope
12. Marriage in Matriarchy: Matrimony in Women’s Utopian Fiction 1888-1909
Rebecca Styler
13. Marriage in Women’s Short Fiction
Victoria Margree
14. Marriage, the March of Time and Middlemarch
Marlene Tromp
Appendix A: Marriage 1800-1900: Timeline of Key Dates and Texts

About the author

Carolyn Lambert is an independent scholar and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK.

Marion Shaw is Emeritus Professor of English at Loughborough University, UK.

Summary

This book outlines the public discourses around marriage in the 19th century, the legal reforms achieved as a result of public pressure, and the ways in which these laws and economic concerns impacted on the marital relationship, drawing on life writing, journalism, and conduct books.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Lambert, Carolyn (University of Brighton Lambert, Carolyn Shaw Lambert, Marion Shaw
• Assisted by: Carolyn Lambert (Editor), Carolyn (University of Brighton Lambert (Editor), Lambert Carolyn (Editor), Marion Shaw (Editor), Marion (Loughborough University Shaw (Editor), Shaw Marion (Editor), Frances Twinn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138285644
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28564-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature; Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form