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Hardcover Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel Book

ISBN: 1684484243

ISBN13: 9781684484249

Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel

In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device--the surrogate family--as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women's changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves,...

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