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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"marriage plot"”.
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The transforming heroine: becoming a wife in the Austen marriage plot
… transformation in her heroines, Jane Austen uses marriage plot novels to romantically idealize the role of being a wife. In particular, heroines Catherine Morland, Marianne Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, and Emma Woodhouse lose autonomy and become more limited within their characters as they are …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
In "The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930," I argue that a new type of imperial novel emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, …
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Playing with Matches: Matchmaking as Authorship in the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot
… narrative treatment of matchmakers in British marriage plots across the nineteenth century. In an era of increasing state control over marriage and the rising ideology of romantic marriage, the matchmaker represents the communal courtship practices of the past. As such, she offers both a threat …
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TRAUMATIZED WIVES AND THE TRANSATLANTIC NOVEL: UNVEILING THE CULTURAL NARRATIVE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY MARITAL SUFFERING
… novel's subtle revisions to the traditional marriage plot, in terms of both narrative and form, identifying a gradual shift in the way marriage was fictionalized. I argue that incremental revisions to the marriage plot reconstruct positive representations of female marital experience into …
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Feminist fiction and fictional feminism: Sarah Grand and the new woman novel
… the most traditional form of the novel, the marriage plot. The first chapter provides an historical and cultural context for the study of the New Woman fiction. Later chapters explore Grand's interruptions of the marriage plot with narratives of female psychology and desire, with challenges …
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Navigating Heroines Between Scylla and Charybdis: Austen's Narrators
… she preserves her heroines from imprudent marriages. Austen's heroines do not fall madly in love at first sight, but rather they acquiesce to marriage through reason and discernment. She endows her heroines with qualities that make them worthy of her interference in the marriage plot: …
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The work of death in the Americas
… and generative romantic structure of the marriage plot around which many of these novels circulate. This criticism emphasizes the somatic nature of the genre, the corporeal language of romance that is read in the tears of joy and grief spilled by its characters as well as its readers. But …
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Gender and Creativity: Female Artist Subplots From Hawthorne to Fowles
… summarizes the characteristics of the artist plot. Chapter One examines the disruptive textual interplay between female artist subplots and the centripetal finalizing force of a dominant romance plot. In the novels examined, plot, setting, and character double to tell two "warring" stories. …
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Radical Interiorities, Aesthetic Selves: Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, Virginia Woolf
… Gothic underpinnings of the mid-Victorian marriage plot, the psychological verisimilitude of late nineteenth-century realism, and the visionary simultaneity of twentieth-century modernism. The novels in my study—Brontë’s <em>Jane Eyre </em>(1847) and <em>Villette </em>(1853), James’s …
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
… structures - such as the much-discussed marriage plot or the family saga - friendships call for accommodation within certain forms, and my thesis argues that Bellow masters what might be called the ‘friendship novel’, that is, a subgenre in which friendship largely determines plot and …
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Wandering, Idleness, and the Nineteenth-Century Tales Novel, 1836-1895
… narratives, the tales novels also demonstrate plot interdependence. I argue that this structural tension highlights a similar tension during the Victorian period between individualism and essentialism that in some sense we still maintain today.</p> <p>This Victorian paradox lies at the …
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Place and displacement: the unsettling connection of women, property, and the law in British novels of the long nineteenth century
… creates the dynamic tension that drives many plots of the long nineteenth century, precipitating the movements of dispossessed female characters who must maneuver through a complex topology of geography, laws, and social practices in search of new homes, families, or communities. Since the …