Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to students and resear
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For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught J
Since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, the history of prose fiction has privileged the courtship plot. Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narr
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