The January-May marriage in nineteenth-century British literature / Esther Godfrey

• 作者： Godfrey, Esther Liu 1973-
• 出版： New York, NY ;Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
• 主題： English fiction--19th century--History and criticism , May-December romances--In literature
• ISBN： 9780230618596 (Eelectronic bk.) 、 0230618596 (Eelectronic bk.)
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• 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-248) and index Marriage between older husbands and younger wives was common in nineteenth-century literature, and as Godfrey skillfully argues, provides auseful window into the dynamics of the patriarchic paradigm. Examiningcanonical and non-canonical texts from Sense and Sensibility to Dracula, this study finds that literary January-May marriages respond to distinctively nineteenth-century anxieties regarding gender roles by deploying a surprising range of modes parody, incest, aesthetics, horror, economics, and love. The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature ultimately argues that age, like race, sexuality and classis an essential component of gendered identities
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• 系統號： 005162306 | 機讀編目格式