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1 online resource (217 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographyindex; about the author. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Women authors. |
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Marriage in literature.
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Marriage in literature. |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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18th century |
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1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomason, Laura E. Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage. Lanham : Bucknell University Press, ©2013 9781611485264 |
| ISBN |
9781611485271 (electronic book) |
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1611485274 (electronic book) |
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9781611485264 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1611485266 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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