Dickens and the rise of divorce the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition

Hager, Kelly

Dickens and the rise of divorce the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition - England Ashgate 2010 - viii,206p. 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.

Contextualizing the failed-marriage plot: Ian Watt, the domestic novel, and the law of marriage -- Monstrous marriage in early Dickens -- Making a spectacle of yourself, or, marriage as melodrama in Dombey and son -- Estranging David Copperfield -- Hard times and the indictment of marriage.

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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 --Criticism and interpretation.


Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
Divorce in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Divorce--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Marriage--History--Great Britain--19th century.

PR4592.D57 / H34 2010

823.8 / HA-D

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