02923nam 2200625 450 991082098330332120200520144314.01-61148-527-4(CKB)2670000000494225(EBL)1577415(OCoLC)865334230(SSID)ssj0001061333(PQKBManifestationID)11571455(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061333(PQKBWorkID)11109241(PQKB)11535170(MiAaPQ)EBC1577415(Au-PeEL)EBL1577415(CaPaEBR)ebr10815259(CaONFJC)MIL550949(EXLCZ)99267000000049422520131218d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe matrimonial trap eighteenth-century women writers redefine marriage /Laura E. ThomasonLanham, Maryland :Bucknell University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (217 p.)Transits. Literature, Thought & CultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-61148-705-6 1-61148-526-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; NOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHORThe 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. Transits (Bucknell University)English literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismMarriage in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Marriage in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/928709033Thomason Laura E.1973-1681495MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820983303321The matrimonial trap4050934UNINA