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Marriage plot is a term used, often in academic circles, to categorize a storyline that recurs in novels most prominently and more recently in films. Until the expansion of the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples, this plot centered exclusively on the courtship rituals between a man and a woman and the obstacles that faced the potential couple on its way to the nuptial payoff.
As the plot unfolds, the heroine embarks on a journey toward what will become, by the resolution, the ideal marriage: a union founded on mutual affection and respect, a deep yet rational attachment, emotionally and intellectually balanced but economically viable, with a man whose thoughts and tastes align with hers—someone she has had time to ...
The Marriage Plot is a 2011 novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. ... here are countless other Madeleines in modern-day literature and film: smart, ...
Mary rewrites the traditional romance plot through its reimagination of gender relations and female sexuality. Yet, because Wollstonecraft employs the genre of sentimentalism to critique sentimentalism itself, her "fiction", as she labels it, sometimes reflects the same flaws of sentimentalism that she is attempting to expose.
Marriage is one of the major themes in Middlemarch. According to George Steiner, "both principal plots [those of Dorothea and Lydgate] are case studies of unsuccessful marriage". [18] This suggests that these "disastrous marriages" leave the lives of Dorothea and Lydgate unfulfilled. [29]
Title page of Amelia Amelia is a sentimental novel written by Henry Fielding and published in December 1751. It was the fourth and final novel written by Fielding, and it was printed in only one edition while the author was alive, although 5,000 copies were published of the first edition. Amelia follows the life of Amelia and Captain William Booth after they are married. It contains many ...
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011).
North and South is a social novel published in 1854–55 by English author Elizabeth Gaskell.With Wives and Daughters (1866) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 1975 and 2004).