TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisher,Dalene Joy
TI  - Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bront�e, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft
T2  - Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
SN  - 9780830855247
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Westmont
PB  - InterVarsity Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Doing God's Work": Female Heroines in Response to Milton's Eve -- 1 Redeeming "Certain Books": Leveraging the Novel Form -- 2 "Through a Glass Darkly": Mary Wollstonecraft and Christian Agency in The Wrongs of Woman: or, Maria. A Fragment (1798) -- 3 "Fanny, So Odd and So Stupid": Christian Resistance and Rational Change in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) -- 4 "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Bront�e's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) -- 5 "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853) -- Conclusion: "To Attract the Eyes of Men" -- Bibliography -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Notes -- Praise for Resisting the Marriage Plot -- About the Author -- More Titles from InterVarsity Press -- Copyright
N2  - Fiction has long been used to cast vision for social change, but the role of Christian faith in such works has often been overlooked. In this STA volume, Dalene Joy Fisher examines how the works of Jane Austen, Anne Bront�e, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Mary Wollstonecraft challenge cultural expectations of women and marriage, exploring how Christianity can be a transformative force of liberation
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