European political parties / edited by Stanley Henig and John Pinder

• Record Nr.: UNISA990002160420203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Allen & Unwin LTD, 1969
• Descrizione fisica: 565 p. ; 23 cm
• Collana: Political and economic planning
• Collocazione: XXIII.4.C. 290 (IG VIII 12 568)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The matrimonial trap : eighteenth-century women writers redefine marriage / / Laura E. Thomason

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463844903321
• Autore: Thomason Laura E. <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Bucknell University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-61148-527-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Collana: Transits. Literature, Thought & Culture
• Disciplina: 820.9/928709033
• Soggetti: English literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Marriage in literature; English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION. Eighteenth-Century Marriage in Crisis?; CHAPTER 1. INTIMACY, IDENTITY, AND MARITAL CHOICE: The Osborne-Temple Correspondence; CHAPTER 2. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU: The Power of Self-Fashioning; CHAPTER 3. ; HESTER CHAPONE AS A LIVING CLARISSA IN LETTERS ON FILIAL OBEDIENCE AND A MATRIMONIAL CREED; CHAPTER 4. "PERFECT FRIENDSHIP": Mary Delany, Companionacy, and Control; CHAPTER 5. DUTY AND SENTIMENT IN SARAH SCOTT'S THE TEST OF FILIAL DUTY; CHAPTER 6. ELIZA HAYWOOD: The Limits of Feminine Agency; AFTERWORD. From Clarissa Harlowe to Elizabeth Bennet; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Sommario/riassunto: The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society.