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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795366303321

Autore

Fisher Dalene Joy

Titolo

Resisting the Marriage Plot : Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westmont : , : InterVarsity Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-8308-5524-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

Studies in Theology and the Arts

Disciplina

823/.8099287

Soggetti

English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism

English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Marriage in literature

Women and religion - England - History - 19th century

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Christianity in literature

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve -- 1 Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form -- 2 "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798) -- 3 "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) -- 4 "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Brontë's: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) -- 5 "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) -- Conclusion "To Attract the Eyes of Men" -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Notes -- Praise for Resisting the Marriage Plot -- About the Author -- More Titles from



InterVarsity Press -- Copyright.

Sommario/riassunto

Fiction has long been used to cast vision for social change, but the role of Christian faith in such works has often been overlooked. In this STA volume, Dalene Joy Fisher examines how the works of Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft challenge cultural expectations of women and marriage, exploring how Christianity can be a transformative force of liberation.