Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. THE FORMING AND TRANSFORMING OF THE MARRIAGE PLOT
II. MARITAL AND OTHER LOYALTIES: CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR THE MARRIAGE PLOT
III. BEYOND COUPLING: QUEER, COMMUNAL, TERTIARY
PART I: THE FORMING AND TRANSFORMING OF THE MARRIAGE PLOT
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CHAPTER 2: Darwin’s Marriage Plots: Unplotting Courtship in Late Victorian Fiction: ELISHA COHN
I. EVOLUTIONARY CHOICE
II. SCHREINER
III. CAIRD
IV. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 3: Mythic Marriage: Haggard, Frazer, Hardy, and the Anthropology of Myth: KATHY PSOMIADES
I. H. RIDER HAGGARD’S SHE: GODDESSES AND GLADSTONE BAGS
II. JAMES FRAZER’S THE GOLDEN BOUGH: MYTH AND RITUAL
III. THOMAS HARDY’S TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES: CLARISSA AND CYBELE
PART II: MARITAL AND OTHER LOYALTIES: CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR THE MARRIAGE PLOT
CHAPTER 4: Playing the Princess: Enacting and Resisting Marriage in the Victorian School Story: KELLY HAGER
I. A JUST READING OF THE PRINCESS
II. THE PRINCESS GOES TO GIRTON
III. “SWEET GIRL-GRADUATES”
IV. “TELL HER TO MARRY HIM”
V. THE PRINCESS: A SCHOOL STORY
CHAPTER 5: The Longue Durée of Political Bildungsromane: Putting George Eliot into Dialogue with Danish Television: LAUREN M. E. GOODLAD
I. POLITICAL BILDUNGSROMANE AND THE ADULTEROUS GEOPOLITICAL AESTHETIC
II. “DECENCY IN THE MIDDLE”
CHAPTER 6: ’Til Death Do Us Part: Marriage, Murder, and Confession: MARLENE TROMP
CHAPTER 7: Marriage, Modernity, and the Transimperial: SUKANYA BANERJEE
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PART III: BEYOND COUPLING: QUEER, COMMUNAL, TERTIARY
CHAPTER 8: “Even Supposing—”: Reading/Writing Outside the Marriage Plot in Dickens Fan Fiction: HOLLY FURNEAUX
I. DWELLING ON/WITH DICKENS: PORTABILITY, SERIALITY, COUNTERFACTUALITY
II. QUEER DICKENS CO-PRODUCTIONS
III. FAN FICTION AS REPARATIVE READING
CHAPTER 9: Disabling Marriage: Communities of Care in Our Mutual Friend: TALIA SCHAFFER
CHAPTER 10: Extra Man: Dining Out Beyond the Marriage Plot in Our Mutual Friend: HELENA MICHIE
I. LIGNIFICATION
II. SINGULARITY
III. REANIMATION
AFTERWORD: Real Figures: MARY JEAN CORBETT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX