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Top scholars in Victorian studies reexamine questions about marriage and the marriage plot from cutting-edge perspectives.

"Employs transimperial reading, queer theory, disability studies, and philosophies of the formation of human society to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage--

Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material?

The 1890s were once seen as marginal within the larger field of Victorian studies, which tended to privilege the realist novel and the authors of the mid-centur

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