Between Women : : Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England / / Sharon Marcus.
Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 18 halftones. 2 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Female Relations of Victorian England
- Part One. Elastic Ideals: Female Friendship
- Chapter One. Friendship and the Play of the System
- Chapter Two. Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot
- Part Two. Mobile Objects: Female Desire
- Chapter Three. Dressing Up and Dressing Down the Feminine Plaything
- Chapter Four. The Female Accessory in Great Expectations
- Part Three. Plastic Institutions: Female Marriage
- Chapter Five. The Genealogy of Marriage
- Chapter Six. Contracting Female Marriage in Can You Forgive Her?
- Conclusion. Woolf, Wilde and Girl Dates
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index