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The Marriage Plot
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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
Resisting the Marriage Plot
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Dickens and the Rise of Divorce
Language: en
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Authors: Kelly Hager
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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