...Mary A. Favret Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen after War .By Eric C. Walker. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xiv + 283 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

... that Protestant merchants and others wanted to see England as “standing proudly apart from other European powers” (173) downplays the workings of international Protestant humanism and international religious bonds. Similarly, the marriage of the Elector Palatine and James I’s daughter Elizabeth, a significant...

...John G. Demaray Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 LOVE’S EPIC REVEL IN PARADISE LOST A THEATRICAL VISION OF MARRIAGE By JOHN G. DEMARAY When evening comes to the Paradisial Garden, and Adam and Eve...

...Thomas P. Hennings Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 THE ANGLICAN DOCTRINE OF THE AFFECTIONATE MARRIAGE IN THE COMEDY OF ERRORS By THOMASP. HENNINGS...

...William C. Strange Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 THE PROPER MARRIAGE OF ALLEGORY AND MYTH IN NERVAL‘S t‘HORUS” By WILLIAMC. STRANGE Although overshadowed by “El Desdichado” and “Art6mis,” the great...

...Arthur M. Coon C. J. Sisson. Cambridge: The University Press, 1940. Pp. 203. $2.50. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 Arfhwr M.Coon 321 The Judicious Marriage of Alr. Hooker an.d the Birth of The Lows of Ecclesiastical...

... reconciliation of father and daughter, as, also tragically, does the final action between Gertrude and Hamlet when she wipes his forehead, fulfilling his promise that “when you are desirous to be blessed, / I’ll blessing beg of you.” The blessing of marriage between Hamlet and Ophelia exposes another abruption...

...Philip Mirabelli Reacting against a repressive turn in English society, Shakespeare’s middle-period plays defend the traditional relationship code and its relatively tolerant mores, question the fusion of passion and marriage that the playwright developed in earlier plays, and explore more...

... from Samuel Richardson and Jane Austen—is to better apprehend how in the early eighteenth century the marriage plot’s ideal of heterosexual complementarity had not yet become the only game in town. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Nancy Armstrong contracts exchange...

..., however, falls into a conventional love story and is sacrificed to a marriage plot, which here and elsewhere Staël identifies with the distinctively English genre of domestic fiction. Refusing to naturalize the arrangements analyzed in Desire and Domestic Fiction from its position outside the English...

... of complementary coupling providing a formal and thematic model for the dialectical engagements necessary for navigating social conflict. At the same time, Gaskell uses Austenian motifs to dramatize the “marriageability” of different generic frameworks during a time of regional fragmentation while also envisioning...

... translated into Chinese at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound influence on Chinese readers’ perception of romance, marriage, and life. Chinese readers were obsessed with reading translated love stories that shed light on the way romantic love was conceived and expressed in the West...

... interruption,l but the lively exchange of opinion which ensues actually motivates the second and longer part of the general discussion of marriage.2 By raising the question of the advis- ability of matrimony, the Pardoner furnishes the Wife with an excuse for continuing beyond the point...

... In the 1890s, George Gissing wrote a series of novels dealing centrally with the problems of marriage and women’s emancipation: The Enzanci- pated (1890), The Odd Women (1893), In the Year of Jubilee (1894), and The Whirlpool (1897). Until the present decade, none of these books has con- tributed...

... with the Prince before his marriage. Neg- lected by Adam and Maggie, who continue their father-daughter close- ness, the Prince and Charlotte resume an affaira2Slowly emerging from a state of ‘unsuspecting ignorance, Maggie decides that she will preserve I Dupee, Henry James, American Men...

..., and believes such marriages to have originated in convention rather than reality: “To a huge system of comic impos- ture, not to any conceivable society the Hymeneal pretenses belong.” Professors G. M. Travelyan, Mr. T. A. Lacey, and Mr. Bonamy Dobree had disputed Lamb’s statement by reference...

... to be individuals (would become indistinguishable from one another) if they ever actually coincided with the communal stance. This problem dictates the importance of the marriage plot in Austen and enables us to see that her treatment of it is, finally, formal...

... Germanics and comparative lit- erature. Best known for Goethe’s Faust: The German Tragedy (1986), Brown is author, most recently, of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner (2007). doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-025 Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism...

... Germanics and comparative lit- erature. Best known for Goethe’s Faust: The German Tragedy (1986), Brown is author, most recently, of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner (2007). doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-025 Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism...

... Germanics and comparative lit- erature. Best known for Goethe’s Faust: The German Tragedy (1986), Brown is author, most recently, of The Persistence of Allegory: Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner (2007). doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-025 Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism...