The Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage.
Thomason, Laura E.
The Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage. - Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (217 pages). - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Bibliographyindex; about the author.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 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; NOTES.
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.
9781611485271 (electronic bk.) 1611485274 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
1700-1799
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Marriage in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Écrits de femmes anglais--Histoire et critique.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Marriage in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR448.W65 .T48 2013
820.9/928709033
The Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage. - Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (217 pages). - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 . - Transits (Bucknell University) .
Bibliographyindex; about the author.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 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; NOTES.
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.
9781611485271 (electronic bk.) 1611485274 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
1700-1799
English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Marriage in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Écrits de femmes anglais--Histoire et critique.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Marriage in literature.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR448.W65 .T48 2013
820.9/928709033