Issue 17.1-2
Overview
Special Issue: For Better or Worse: Attutudes Towards Marriage in Literature
Published: January 1984
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19 essays, totalling 290 pages
$22.95 CAD
How has the portrayal of marriage in literature changed over time? Has it? In what ways? Do we even need marriage? Has anyone not suffered in marriage? This special double issue of Mosaic brings together one set of essays focused on the period before 1900 and another set focused the period after 1900. These are connected through an introduction by guest editor Coral Lansbury. This issue offers essays on The Nun’s Priest Tale, masculinity in Shakespeare, a version of perfect marriage in John Milton, feminism and anti-feminism across time, the historical effects of The Doll House, the rise of divorce literature, the future of marriage in science fiction, domestic violence, and the post-marriage man.
"Mulier est hominis confusio": Chaucer's Anti-Popular Nun's Priest's TaleSheila Delany | |
Masculine Adultery and Feminine Rejoinders in Shakespeare, Dekker and SharphamAnne Parten | |
The Ideal Lady and the Rise of Feminism in Seventeenth-Century EnglandJan de Bruyn | |
Fit Help: The Egalitarian Marriage in Paradise LostF. Peczenik | |
Neurotic Responses to a Failed Marriage: George Meredith's Modern LoveStephen Watt | |
Wedlock as Deadlock and Beyond: Closure and the Victorian Marriage IdealJoseph Allen Boone | |
After the Slam of A Doll's House Door: Reverberations in the Work of James, Hardy, Ford and WellsPeter Buitenhuis | |
Inner and Outer Space in The AwakeningRobert White | |
Who Killed Dick Diver? The Sexual Politics of Tender is the NightJudith Fetterley | |
Divorce in Franco Spain: Elena Quiroga's Algo pasa en la callePhyllis Zatlin | |
Cumbered with Much Serving: Barbara Pym's "Excellent Women"Robert J. Graham | |
Staging a Marriage: Margaret Drabble's The Garrick YearNora Foster Stovel | |
Love, Race and Sex in the Novels of James BaldwinLorelei Cederstrom | |
The Total "O": Dream or Nightmare?Nathaniel Brown and Rebecca Blevins Faery | |
The Future Imperfect of Conjugation: Images of Marriage in Science FictionPatricia Monk | |
Politicizing the Private: Sylvia Fraser's PandoraLorna Irvine | |
The Linguistic Aspect of Sexual Conflict: Monique Wittig's Le Corps lesbienMarthe Rosenfeld | |
Domestic Violence in Literature: A Preliminary StudyRuth Nadelhaft | |
Beyond Argument: Post-Marital Man in John Cheever's Later FictionRobert G. Collins |