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Resisting the Marriage Plot : Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft / Dalene Joy Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Dalene Joy, 1971- author.
- Series:
- Studies in theology and the arts.
- Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity in literature.
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Marriage in literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Women and literature.
- Women and religion.
- Women and religion--England--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, IL : InterVarsity Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Fiction has long been used to cast vision for social change, but the role of Christian faith in such works has often been overlooked. In this STA volume, Dalene Joy Fisher examines how the works of Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft challenge cultural expectations of women and marriage, exploring how Christianity can be a transformative force of liberation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve
- 1 Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form
- 2 "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798)
- 3 "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814)
- 4 "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Brontë's: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
- 5 "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853)
- Conclusion "To Attract the Eyes of Men"
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- Notes
- Praise for Resisting the Marriage Plot
- About the Author
- More Titles from InterVarsity Press
- Copyright.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780830855247
- 0830855246
- OCLC:
- 1281975875
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