Dickens and the rise of divorce : the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition /
Hager, Kelly.
Farnham : Ashgate,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.
Contextualizing the failed-marriage plot: Ian Watt, the domestic novel, and the law of marriage -- Monstrous marriage in early Dickens -- Making a spectacle of yourself, or, marriage as melodrama in Dombey and son -- Estranging David Copperfield -- Hard times and the indictment of marriage.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Domestic fiction, English
Divorce in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Divorce
Marriage