Consensual Fictions : : Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel / / Wendy Jones.
In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation o...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Married Love and Its Consequences
- 2. Virtuous Libertines and Liberated Virgins: Sir Charles Grandison
- 3. 'No small part of a woman's portion': Love, Duty, and Society in Persuasion
- 4. Feminism and Contract Theory in He Knew He Was Right
- 5. Margaret Oliphant's Women Who Want Too Much
- 6. Liberalism and Feminism: The End of the Line
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index