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The bigamy plot : sensation and convention in the Victorian novel / Maia McAleavey.
Van Pelt Library PR878.B49 M43 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McAleavey, Maia, 1981-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Bigamy in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Sensation and convention in the Victorian novel
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- A wife and not a wife. The plot in time: historical bigamy and Sylvia's lovers; The plot in space: skeletons in the closet in Jane Eyre and East Lynne
- Dead yet not dead. David Copperfield's angelic bigamy; Dorothea's simultaneous remarriage
- Sensational and canonical. Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley's secret; The improper end: Aurora Floyd and Jude the obscure
- Coda: the end of bigamy
- Appendix: list of Victorian bigamy novels.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107103160
- 1107103169
- OCLC:
- 899488609
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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