Origins of the English Marriage Plot
Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
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Word Count
79,500 words, Guess
Page Count
318 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781108485685
- ISBN-101108485685
- Library of Congress Control Number2019007065
- OCLC Control Number1085951400
- Better World Books9781108485685
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28725377M
Classifications
- LCCPR858.M36O36 2019
- LCCPR858.M36 O36 2019
Description
"Why did marriage become central to the English novel in the eighteenth-century? As clandestine weddings and the unruly culture that surrounded them began to threaten power and property, questions about where and how to marry became urgent matters of public debate. In 1753, in an unprecedented and controversial use of state power, Lord Chancellor Hardwicke mandated Anglican church weddings as marriage's only legal form. Resistance to his Marriage Act would fuel a new kind of realist marriage plot in England and help to produce political radicalism as we know it. Focussing on how major authors from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen made church weddings a lynchpin of their fiction, The Origins of the English Marriage Plot offers a truly innovative account of the rise of the novel by telling the story of the English marriage plot's engagement with the most compelling political and social questions of its time"--
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- Origins of the English Marriage Plot: Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
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