TY - BOOK AU - Hager,Kelly TI - Dickens and the rise of divorce : the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition SN - 9780754669470 AV - PR4592.D57 H34 2010 U1 - 823.8 22 PY - 2010/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Dickens, Charles, KW - Domestic fiction, English KW - History and criticism KW - Divorce in literature KW - Marriage in literature KW - Divorce KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Marriage N1 - 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 ER -