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  1. Resisting the marriage plot
    faith and female agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft
    Author: Fisher, Dalene Joy
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois

    "Fiction has long been used to cast vision for social change, but the role of Christian faith in such works has often been overlooked. In this STA volume, Dalene Joy Fisher examines how the works of Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and... more

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    "Fiction has long been used to cast vision for social change, but the role of Christian faith in such works has often been overlooked. In this STA volume, Dalene Joy Fisher examines how the works of Jane Austen, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft challenge cultural expectations of women and marriage, exploring how Christianity can be a transformative force of liberation"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780830850716
    Series: Studies in theology and the arts
    Subjects: Glaube <Motiv>; Ehe <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865): Ruth; Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797): The wrongs of woman: or, Maria; Austen, Jane (1775-1817): Mansfield Park; Brontë, Anne (1820-1849): The tenant of Wildfell Hall; English fiction / Women authors / History and criticism; English fiction / 19th century / History and criticism; Marriage in literature; Women and religion / England / History / 19th century; Women and literature / England / History / 19th century; Christianity in literature; Christianity in literature; English fiction; English fiction / Women authors; Marriage in literature; Women and literature; Women and religion; England; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: x, 260 Seiten, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve -- Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form -- "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798) -- "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) -- "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) -- "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) -- Conclusion: "Attracting the Eyes of Men"