Public vows : fictions of marriage in the English Enlightenment /
"This book examines how eighteenth-century novels engaged the period's dramatic changes in marriage law and helped shift the focus of discussion from the implications of nuptial law on society in general to the implications for women in particular"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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| Summary: | "This book examines how eighteenth-century novels engaged the period's dramatic changes in marriage law and helped shift the focus of discussion from the implications of nuptial law on society in general to the implications for women in particular"-- |
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| Abstract: | In eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously unrecognised ways and that novels, in turn, played a central role in the debates. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Awards: | Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 081394242X 9780813942421 |