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Narrating marriage in eighteenth-century England and France
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- Creator
- Chris Roulston
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754668398, 0754668398, 9781409402541, 1409402541, 9781409404392, 1409404390
- OCLC
- ocn461896071
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-225) and index.
- Advice literature and the meaning of marriage: early advice literature on marriage; from obedience to mutuality; marriage versus courtship and romance; French advice literature and conjugal sexuality; promoting divorce in ancien régime France; marrying the ideal and the real; marriage and gender boundaries -- Accounting for marriage: Richardson and the composition of Pamela; Pamela and narrative accountability ; Rousseau and the strategy of marriage; Julie and marital accountability -- Marriage and the colonial imagination -- Disruptive wives and the balance of power -- Narrating wife-abuse -- Having it both ways: the eighteenth-century ménage-à-trois