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

Author/creator Hager, Kelly
Format Book
Publication InfoFarnhma, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2010.
Description[ix], 206 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-200) and index.
LCCN 2009026053
ISBN9780754669470 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0754669475 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780754697114 (e-book)
ISBN0754697118 (e-book)