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- Title
Slipping into Marriage: How Heroines Create Desire by Risking Their Reputations.
- Authors
ENGLAND, CATHERINE
- Abstract
The article examines how the heroines of 19th century novels create desire by risking their reputations. Topics covered include how marriage-plot novels instruct their female readers to place themselves in positions of enough danger to elicit male affections and proposals and how many of the most innocent heroines speculate that sacrificing good assets can lead to the best rewards and that they take risks with their social capital.
- Subjects
WOMEN heroes; MARRIAGE in literature; 19TH century fiction; MARRIAGE proposals; SOCIAL capital
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2014, Vol 40, Issue 2, p109
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2014.0047