Origins of the English Marriage Plot - Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Lisa O'Connell is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. She is Vice-President of the Australia and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on eighteenth-century literature and culture as well as co-editing Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century (2004). Zusammenfassung Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English literature and culture as well as feminist literary history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa O'Connell, Lisa (University of Queensland) O''connell, O'Connell Lisa
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108707459
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70745-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800