Joinings and disjoinings : the significance of marital status in literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mink, JoAnna Stephens, Ward, Janet Doubler
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, [1991]
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Table of Contents:
  • Love and death in Chaucer's The book of the duchess / Patricia Prandini Buckler
  • Marriage in Goldsmith : the single woman, feminine space, and "virtue" / Christopher K. Brooks
  • The symbol of the androgyne in Blake's The four Zoas and Shelley's Prometheus unbound : marital status among the romantic poets / Patrick Bizzaro
  • Real lives : didactic realism in antebellum marital fiction / Thomas H. Fick
  • Text and context in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall : from widowhood to independence / Joyce W. Warren
  • "To be wise herself" : the widowing of Dorothea Brooke in George Eliot's Middlemarch / Richard D. McGhee
  • Marriage of partnership : Elizabeth Gaskell and the Victorian androgynous ideal / Laurie Buchanan
  • "The web of self-strangulation" : mothers, daughters and the question of marriage in the short stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman / Mary R. Reichardt.
  • Peter Altenberg : the "radical bachelor" / Pamela S. Saur
  • Proving one's worth : the importance of marriage in the world of Barbara Pym / Katherine Anne Ackley
  • The dismembered couple : Krapp's last tape and Happy days / Mary F. Catanzaro
  • July's people : she knew no word / Stefanie Dojka.