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Narrating marriage in eighteenth-century England and France
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Narrating marriage in eighteenth-century England and France / Chris Roulston.
ISBN
9780754668398 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754668398 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409402541 (ebook)
1409402541 (ebook)
9781409404392 (ebook)
1409404390 (ebook)
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2010.
Physical Description
240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 29, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Advice literature and the meaning of marriage: early advice literature on marriage; from obedience to mutuality; marriage versus courtship and romance; French advice literature and conjugal sexuality; promoting divorce in ancien régime France; marrying the ideal and the real; marriage and gender boundaries
Accounting for marriage: Richardson and the composition of Pamela; Pamela and narrative accountability ; Rousseau and the strategy of marriage; Julie and marital accountability
Marriage and the colonial imagination
Disruptive wives and the balance of power
Narrating wife-abuse
Having it both ways: the eighteenth-century ménage-à-trois.
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