Verlag:
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville
"This book examines how eighteenth-century novels engaged the period's dramatic changes in marriage law and helped shift the focus of discussion from the implications of nuptial law on society in general to the implications for women in particular"--
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"This book examines how eighteenth-century novels engaged the period's dramatic changes in marriage law and helped shift the focus of discussion from the implications of nuptial law on society in general to the implications for women in particular"--
Introduction: marriage, law, and the novel -- Conjugal bonds: freedom and wedlock in Daniel Defoe -- Nuptial plots: private unions and public pledges in Samuel Richardson -- "Ah! stop! I consent to what you please!": secret matches and coerced unions in Frances Burney -- "'Tis our hearts alone that can bind the vow": love and law from Fenwick to Wollstonecraft
