The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
by
E. Godfrey
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230606733
ISBN-13
9780230606739
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 24th, 2009
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
402 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 16.10 x 1.90 cms
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By considering the disruptive potential of age disparate marriages in nineteenth-century British literature, Godfrey offers provocative new readings of canonical texts including Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Bleak House.
Marriage between older husbands and younger wives was common in nineteenth-century literature, and as Godfrey skillfully argues, provides a useful window into the dynamics of the patriarchic paradigm. Examining canonical and non-canonical texts from Sense and Sensibility to Dracula, this study finds that literary January-May marriages respond to distinctively nineteenth-century anxieties regarding gender roles by deploying a surprising range of modes-parody, incest, aesthetics, horror, economics, and love. The January-May Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature ultimately argues that age-like race, sexuality and class-is an essential component of gendered identities.
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