Narrating marriage in the eighteenth century
By: by Christine Roulston.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754668398; 9781409402541
Subjects: Marriage in literature; French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Advice literature and the meaning of marriage: early advice literature on marriage; from obedience to mutuality; marriage versus courtship and romance; French advice literature and conjugal sexuality; promoting divorce in ancien régime France; marrying the ideal and the real; marriage and gender boundaries; title: Accounting for marriage: Richardson and the composition of Pamela; Pamela and narrative accountability ; Rousseau and the strategy of marriage; Julie and marital accountability; title: Marriage and the colonial imagination; title: Disruptive wives and the balance of power; title: Narrating wife-abuse; title: Having it both ways: the eighteenth-century ménage-à-trois.