LEADER 04302nam 2200757 450 001 9910467933803321 005 20210903005325.0 010 $a1-4426-2772-7 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442627727 035 $a(CKB)4940000000585659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670041 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256555 035 $a(OCoLC)958570945 035 $a(DE-B1597)465538 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954919 035 $a(OCoLC)944178893 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442627727 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000585659 100 $a20160924h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aConsensual fictions $ewomen, liberalism, and the English novel /$fWendy S. Jones 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (266 pages) 225 0 $aHeritage 311 0 $a0-8020-8717-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Married Love and Its Consequences --$t2. Virtuous Libertines and Liberated Virgins: Sir Charles Grandison --$t3. 'No small part of a woman's portion': Love, Duty, and Society in Persuasion --$t4. Feminism and Contract Theory in He Knew He Was Right --$t5. Margaret Oliphant's Women Who Want Too Much --$t6. Liberalism and Feminism: The End of the Line --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation of women's place within society. Because this new progressive form of marriage was based on emotion rather than considerations of status or money, it challenged the hierarchical status quo of English society that the traditional patriarchal marriage had upheld. This phenomenon shows how necessary it is to historicize evaluations of political theory; while the relationship between liberalism and feminism is fiercely debated today, it was the foundation for radical feminism and social change from early modern times through much of the twentieth century. In Consensual Fictions, Wendy S. Jones focuses on the English novel of the period to explore the relationship between married love, classic liberal thought, and novelistic form. Jones argues that these works of fiction use the mulitplot form to explore the specific set of cultural problems associated with the ways in which liberalism reconceived marriage, love, and gender by exploring alternative resolutions to cultural problems through different narrative lines. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminist fiction, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFeminism and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain 606 $aConsent (Law)$zGreat Britain 606 $aMarried women in literature 606 $aLiberalism in literature 606 $aWomen in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminist fiction, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFeminism and literature 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aConsent (Law) 615 0$aMarried women in literature. 615 0$aLiberalism in literature. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a823/.8093522 700 $aJones$b Wendy S.$0902303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467933803321 996 $aConsensual fictions$92016941 997 $aUNINA