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Wojcik, Adrianne A.

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Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots./
作者:	Wojcik, Adrianne A.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	262 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
標題:	British & Irish literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10789499
ISBN:	9780355865318

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.
Wojcik, Adrianne A.

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 262 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Marquette University, 2018.

This study investigates how key Victorian novelists, such as Anne and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, emphasize performativity in their critiques of marriage. Given the performative nature of wedding ceremonies, this project focuses on wedding descriptions in select novels by the aforementioned authors. Such a focus highlights an interesting dilemma. Although we often think of Victorian novels as overwhelmingly concerned with marriage, the few wedding descriptions found in Victorian fiction are aborted, unusually short or announced after the fact. Those Victorian novelists who do feature weddings often describe them as grotesquely theatrical to underscore the empty performativity associated with contemporaneous wedding rituals that privilege form over substance, and to stress deception and inauthentic play-acting in marriage. In these ways, the key Victorian novelists draw attention to a gap between the empty formalism of marriage as a legal, religious and social institution, and the reality of many Victorian marriages.

ISBN: 9780355865318Subjects--Topical Terms:

3284317
British & Irish literature.

Theatrical Weddings and Pious Frauds: Performance and Law in Victorian Marriage Plots.
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