Man and Wife
`This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day.Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society.Collins had alre…
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Weitere Autoren: Page, Norman (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-161121-6
- EAN: 9780191611216
- Produktnummer: 13996248
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'542 KB
Über den Autor
Norman Page is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Nottingham. The author of numerous books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, he is the editor of Mad Monkton in World's Classics, and Consultant Editor for the works of Thomas Hardy in Everyman Paperbacks. He lives in Oakham, Rutland.
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