LEADER 02923nam 2200625 450 001 9910820983303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61148-527-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000494225 035 $a(EBL)1577415 035 $a(OCoLC)865334230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001061333 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11571455 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061333 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11109241 035 $a(PQKB)11535170 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1577415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1577415 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10815259 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL550949 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000494225 100 $a20131218d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe matrimonial trap $eeighteenth-century women writers redefine marriage /$fLaura E. Thomason 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cBucknell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aTransits. Literature, Thought & Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61148-705-6 311 $a1-61148-526-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 327 $aBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aThe Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society. 410 0$aTransits (Bucknell University) 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMarriage in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMarriage in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/928709033 700 $aThomason$b Laura E.$f1973-$01681495 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820983303321 996 $aThe matrimonial trap$94050934 997 $aUNINA