Resisting the Marriage Plot - Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft
Resisting the Marriage Plot - Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft
Fisher, Dalene Joy
IVP Academic
12/2021
272
Mole
Inglês
9780830850716
15 a 20 dias
378
Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve
1. Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form
2. "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798)
3. "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814)
4. "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
5. "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853)
Conclusion: "Attracting the Eyes of Men"
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index
Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve
1. Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form
2. "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798)
3. "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Austen's Mansfield Park (1814)
4. "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
5. "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853)
Conclusion: "Attracting the Eyes of Men"
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index