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The Bigamy Plot
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Author | : Maia McAleavey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Bigamy in literature |
ISBN | : 1316375889 |
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Explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
The Bigamy Plot
Author | : Maia McAleavey |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107103160 |
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This study explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
Dickens and the Rise of Divorce
Author | : Kelly Hager |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317151173 |
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Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, has privileged the courtship plot, Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narrative focusing on the failed marriage. Hager maps the legal history of marriage and divorce, providing crucial background as she reveals the prevalence of the failed-marriage plot in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels. Dickens's novels emerge as representative case studies in their preoccupations with the disintegration of marriage, the far-reaching and disastrous effects of the doctrine of coverture, and the comic, spectacular, and monstrous possibilities afforded by the failed-marriage plot. Setting his narratives alongside the writings of liberal reformers like John Stuart Mill and the seemingly conservative agendas of Caroline Norton, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Sarah Stickney Ellis, Hager also offers a more contextualized account of the competing strands of the Woman Question. In the course of her revisionist readings of Dickens's novels, Hager uncovers a Dickens who is neither the conservative agent of the patriarchy nor a novelistic Jeremy Bentham, and reveals that tipping the marriage plot on its head forces us to adjust our understanding of the complexities of Victorian proto-feminism.
The Bigamist
Author | : Mary Turner Thomson |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780572727 |
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In April 2006, Mary Turner Thomson received a call that blew her life apart. The woman on the other end of the line told her that Will Jordan, Mary's husband and the father of her two younger children, had been married to her for fourteen years and they had five children together. The Bigamist is the shocking true story of how one man manipulated an intelligent, independent woman, conning her out of £200,000 and leaving her to bring up the children he claimed he could never have. It's a story we all think could never happen to us, but this shameless con man has been doing the same thing to various other women for at least 27 years, spinning a tangled web of lies and deceit to cover his tracks. How far would you go to help the man you love? How far would he go to deceive you? And what would you do when you found out it was all a lie?
Victorian Sensation Fiction
Author | : Jessica Cox |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350309487 |
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Since the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
Personation Plots
Author | : Clayton Carlyle Tarr |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2022-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438490854 |
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The first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation genre, which enjoyed remarkable popularity in the 1860s and 1870s, at once reflected and challenged this discourse. In their frequent representations of identity fraud, sensation writers demonstrated that the body could never guarantee a person's identity. The body is malleable and untrustworthy, and the identity it is supposed to signify is governed by the caprices of the human mind and the growing authority of paper matter. Both a wide-ranging literary analysis and a portrait of the age, Personation Plots reads canonical texts by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Charles Dickens alongside several lesser-known sensation novels. The study, which anticipates debates over biometric identification practices in our own time, also features brief criminal biographies of two of the nineteenth century's greatest impostors, Alice Grey and Mary Jane Furneaux, and concludes with an afterword on imposture in the late-Victorian Gothic.
Heroic Disobedience The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel 1747 1880
Author | : Leah Grisham |
Publsiher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2023-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781648897818 |
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'Heroic Disobedience: The Forced Marriage Plot and the British Novel, 1747-1880' shows the ways in which eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels used what the author terms the forced marriage plot - a plot arc in which a greedy father tries to force his daughter into a marriage she does not want but that would be financially expedient to himself - to explore capitalism’s detrimental impacts on women’s right to autonomy. As capitalist economic practices replaced mercantilism, a woman’s value was seen primarily in the economic sense. That is, men came to recognize that women – especially young, marriageable women – could be used as objects of exchange between men. Recognizing this phenomenon, the novelists considered in 'Heroic Disobedience' – Samuel Richardson, Charlotte Lennox, Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Stone, and Anthony Trollope – depict the very specific ways in which women were raised to become willing pawns in this system. Religious discourse, conduct guides, marriage and property laws, wages, lack of meaningful education, and inheritance practices combined to leave women with no other options besides dependence on their patriarchs. Importantly, authors who use the forced marriage plot go beyond exposing women’s subjugation by creating – and celebrating – heroically disobedient heroines who believe, above all else, that they have the right to determine their own futures: futures in which they are autonomous agents, not subjected objects.
The Nineteenth century Sensation Novel
Author | : Lyn Pykett |
Publsiher | : Northcote House Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780746312124 |
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This clearly written and wide-ranging study identifies the main features of the sensation novel, analysing its broader cultural significance as well as looking at it in its specific cultural context.