03287nam 22006013 450 991081863960332120231110231936.00-8308-5524-6(CKB)4950000000280491(MiAaPQ)EBC6787903(Au-PeEL)EBL6787903(OCoLC)1281975875(EXLCZ)99495000000028049120211214d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierResisting the Marriage Plot Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and WollstonecraftWestmont :InterVarsity Press,2021.©2021.1 online resource (253 pages)Studies in Theology and the Arts 0-8308-5071-6 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.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.Studies in Theology and the Arts Resisting the Marriage Plot English fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismMarriage in literatureWomen and religionEnglandHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryChristianity in literatureEnglandfastCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastHistory.fastEnglish fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Marriage in literature.Women and religionHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryChristianity in literature.823/.8099287Fisher Dalene Joy1657195MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818639603321Resisting the Marriage Plot4010494UNINA