Matrimonial Trap - Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Eighteenth-Century Marriage in Crisis?
Chapter 1: Intimacy, Identity, and Marital Choice: The Osborne-Temple Correspondence
Chapter 2: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: The Power of Self-Fashioning
Chapter 3: Hester Chapone as a Living Clarissa in Letters on Filial Obedience and A Matrimonial Creed
Chapter 4: "Perfect Friendship": Mary Delany, Companionacy, and Control
Chapter 5: Duty and Sentiment in Sarah Scott's The Test of Filial Duty
Chapter 6: Eliza Haywood: The Limits of Feminine Agency
Afterword: From Clarissa Harlowe to Elizabeth Bennet
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Laura E. Thomason

Product details

• Authors: Laura E. Thomason
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781611487053
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-705-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama