Consensual Fictions : : Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel / / Wendy Jones.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Jones, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2004
• प्रकाशन का वर्ष : 2016
• भाषा: English
• श्रृंखला: Heritage
• भौतिक वर्णन: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Married Love and Its Consequences --; 2. Virtuous Libertines and Liberated Virgins: Sir Charles Grandison --; 3. 'No small part of a woman's portion': Love, Duty, and Society in Persuasion --; 4. Feminism and Contract Theory in He Knew He Was Right --; 5. Margaret Oliphant's Women Who Want Too Much --; 6. Liberalism and Feminism: The End of the Line --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• सारांश: In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation of women's place within society. Because this new progressive form of marriage was based on emotion rather than considerations of status or money, it challenged the hierarchical status quo of English society that the traditional patriarchal marriage had upheld. This phenomenon shows how necessary it is to historicize evaluations of political theory; while the relationship between liberalism and feminism is fiercely debated today, it was the foundation for radical feminism and social change from early modern times through much of the twentieth century.In Consensual Fictions, Wendy S. Jones focuses on the English novel of the period to explore the relationship between married love, classic liberal thought, and novelistic form. Jones argues that these works of fiction use the mulitplot form to explore the specific set of cultural problems associated with the ways in which liberalism reconceived marriage, love, and gender by exploring alternative resolutions to cultural problems through different narrative lines.
• स्वरूप: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• आईएसबीएन: 9781442627727; 9783110667691; 9783110490954
• डिजिटल ऑब्जेक्ट पहचानकर्ता: 10.3138/9781442627727
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Wendy Jones.

In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation o...