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Dickens and the rise of divorce : the failed-marriage plot and the novel tradition / Kelly Hager.

Author: Hager, Kelly.

Imprint:Farnhma, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2010.

Description[ix], 206 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Contextualizing the failed-marriage plot: Ian Watt, the domestic novel, and the law of marriage -- Monstrous marriage in early Dickens -- Making a spectacle of yourself, or, marriage as melodrama in Dombey and son -- Estranging David Copperfield -- Hard times and the indictment of marriage.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.



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Author:
Hager, Kelly.
Subject:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Subject:
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Divorce in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Divorce -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Marriage -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.