1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996234829003316

Titolo

Digital philology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, MD, : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2012-

ISSN

2162-9552

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Literature, Medieval - History and criticism

Philology - Methodology

Literature, Medieval - Digitization

Archival materials - Digitization

Literature, Medieval

Periodicals.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

A journal of medieval cultures.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164099403321

Titolo

The troubled marriage

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Miniature Masterpieces

ISBN

1-78543-050-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (41 p.)

Collana

Victorian short stories

Altri autori (Persone)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Rudyard Kipling

George Gissing

Disciplina

823.010808

Soggetti

Marriage in literature

Romanticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

It seems unlikely that there could be any subject to have preoccupied writers throughout the ages more than the pursuit of love. This may have reached an all time high in the Victorian era when a new age of romanticism captured hearts and minds. However, whilst love might have been the ultimate quest there were numerous practical formalities that preceded it and after the immensely complicated and ritualised courtship, a good match was of paramount importance for both men and women. Women were on average in their early twenties when they married and by the age of 30 were ill considered as a good match and were very much 'on the shelf'. Once married, a man had total ownership and control over all physical property and income that belonged to his wife. She not only lost the little independence that had previously been afforded her but was now the domestic servant of her husband, responsible in ensuring that every aspect of the house from food to kids ran smoothly and caused no trouble to her husband. Divorce was only available to the extremely wealthy until 1857 so for a woman the man she married determined her life whilst the married man always had options. This series of short stories wonderfully captures the Victorian world of matrimony with gems from Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle and many more.