Matrimonial Trap : Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

Name: Matrimonial Trap
Brand: Associated University Presses
SKU: 9781611487053
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ISBN: 9781611487053

by Laura E. Thomason

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850

ISBN-10 1611487056

ISBN-13 9781611487053

Publisher Associated University Presses

Imprint Bucknell University Press,U.S.

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 31st, 2015

Print length 216 Pages

Weight 316 grams

Dimensions 23.00 x 15.30 x 1.90 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Gender studies: women and girls Feminism and feminist theory Feminism & feminist theory Gender studies: women

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The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society.

Mary Delany’s phrase “the matrimonial trap” illuminates the apprehension with which genteel women of the eighteenth century viewed marriage. These women were generally required to marry in order to secure their futures, yet hindered from freely choosing a husband. They faced marriage anxiously because they lacked the power either to avoid it or to define it for themselves. For some women, the written word became a means by which to exercise the power that they otherwise lacked. Through their writing, they made the inevitable acceptable while registering their dissatisfaction with their circumstances. Rhetoric, exercised both in public and in private, allowed these women to define their identities as individuals and as wives, to lay out and test the boundaries of more egalitarian spousal relationships, and to criticize the traditional marriage system as their culture had defined it.

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