Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel by Wendy Jones

Consensual Fictions: Women, Liberalism, and the English Novel

Heritage

Wendy Jones

290 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction gender challenging reflective medium-paced
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In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a 'contractual subjectivity' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provi...

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