: the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition
/ Kelly Hager.
Burlington, VT
: Ashgate
, 2010.
1002
viii, 206 p.
Includes bibliographical references 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,1812-1870Criticism and interpretation.
Domestic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.
Divorce in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Divorce - Great Britain - History , 19th century.
Marriage - Great Britain - History , 19th century.