Title: The marriage paradox : modernist novels and the cultural imperative to marry /
Authors: Pines, Davida.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 2006
Subjects: English fiction History and criticism; Marriage in literature.; Women and literature English-speaking countries History; Modernism (Literature) English-speaking countries; Sex role in literature.
Contents: Introduction : marriage and modernism -- 1. Imperative choices : Henry James's The Portrait of a lady -- 2. Indissoluble differences : marriage and divorce in Ford Madox Ford's The Good soldier and Parade's end -- 3. Sex, marriage, and civilization in D.H. Lawrence's Women in love -- 4. Love and the politics of marriage in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing and Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God -- 5. Enacting the "natural" : the culture of marriage in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- Conclusion : marriage secrets.