A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year byThe Seattle Times ‧ The New Republic ‧ NPR ‧ Salon ‧ The Telegraph ‧ Publisher's Weekly ‧ The New York Times Book Review
"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." —Anthony Trollope, Barchester TowersA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistNamed a Best Book of the Year byThe New York Ti
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of rom
For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of rom
Ablow (English, State U. of New York at Buffalo) examines the relationship between sympathy and subjectivity in mid-19th century novels about marriage by Charles Dickens, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, W
Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focussing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot's engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time.
In this impressive study, Hager (English, Simmons College, Mass.) travels through the rich land of Dickens' novels, keeping her eye firmly focussed on his treatment of marriage. As she relates in her
The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but this is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption, and promiscuity at the heart of 1920's and 1930's high society
This book is about food, eating, and appetite in the nineteenth-century British novel. While much novel criticism has focused on the marriage plot, this book revises the history and theory of the nove
