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Women and marriage in Victorian fiction / Jenni Calder.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR878.W6 C3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calder, Jenni.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Women in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1976.
- Contents:
- Family happiness
- The only solution
- The moral marriage
- Serpent or parasite?
- The perils of independence
- The uncommercial marriage
- Family life
- The dolls in the doll's house
- Passionate women and predatory men
- Women of the period
- Love and the community
- The common yearning of womanhood
- New women
- Sacrificial marriage
- Insurrection
- The case against marriage
- The Kreutzer sonata.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 217-218.
- ISBN:
- 0195198565
- OCLC:
- 2327065
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