Laura E Thomason

The Matrimonial Trap

Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485264
• ISBN-10: 1611485266
• Artikelnr.: 39364651

Autorenporträt

Laura E. Thomason is associate professor of English at Macon State College.

Inhaltsangabe

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