IN the introduction I argue that the double-proposal plot is inherently likely to destabilize readers' notions of love and marriage, since by its very structure it calls into question easy cliches of "the right suitor" and "true love."
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Plots and proposals
American women's fiction, 1850-90
by Karen Tracey
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Feminism and literature, Courtship in literature, Sex role in literature, History and criticism, Marriage in literature, Women's rights in literature, Women authors, Women and literature, American fiction, In literature, History, American literature, women authors, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Literature, stories, plots, etc., Histoire, Écrits de femmes américains, Droits, dans la littérature, Frauenroman, Amours dans la littérature, Femmes, Femmes et littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, Literature, Roman américain, Histoire et critique, Liebeswerben, Féminisme et littérature, Mariage dans la littérature, États-Unis (Sud) dans la littératurePlaces
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Table of Contents
The renegotiation of marriage in nineteenth-century fiction and culture
Caroline Hentz's "little counterplot" in the Old South
Augusta Evans : ambition and the refinement of the Southern double proposal
Domesticating the "woman's rights woman" in Laura Curtis Bullard's and D. E. N. Southworth's Antebellum double-proposal novels
Courtship in the arena of Civil War : Southworth's Britomarte, the man-hater
Professional women and traditional wedlock : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's narrative negotiations.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-196) and index.
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