Dickens and the rise of divorce
Subtitle: the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition
By: Kelly Hager.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669470; 9780754697114
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism; Divorce in literature; Marriage in literature; Divorce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Marriage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contextualizing the failed-marriage plot: Ian Watt, the domestic novel, and the law of marriage; title: Monstrous marriage in early Dickens; title: Making a spectacle of yourself, or, marriage as melodrama in Dombey and son; title: Estranging David Copperfield; title: Hard times and the indictment of marriage.