How Long to Read Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France
By Dr Chris Roulston
How Long Does it Take to Read Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France?
It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France by Dr Chris Roulston
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
In the eighteenth century, when the definition of marriage was shifting from one based on an hierarchical model to one based on notions of love and mutuality, marital life came under a more intense cultural scrutiny. This led to paradoxical forms of representation of marriage as simultaneously ideal and unlivable. Chris Roulston analyzes how, as representations of married life increased, they challenged the traditional courtship model, offering narratives based on repetition rather than progression. Beginning with English and French marital advice literature, which appropriated novelistic conventions at the same time that it cautioned readers about the dangers of novel reading, she looks at representations of ideal marriages in Pamela II and The New Heloise. Moving on from these ideal domestic spaces, bourgeois marriage is then problematized by the discourse of empire in Sir George Ellison and Letters of Mistress Henley, by troublesome wives in works by Richardson and Samuel de Constant, and by abusive husbands in works by Haywood, Edgeworth, Genlis and Restif de la Bretonne. Finally, the alternative marriage narrative, in which the adultery motif is incorporated into the marriage itself, redefines the function of heteronormativity. In exploring the theoretical issues that arise during this transitional period for married life and the marriage plot, Roulston expands the debates around the evolution of the modern couple.
How long is Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France?
Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France by Dr Chris Roulston is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.
This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France aloud.
What Reading Level is Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France?
Narrating Marriage in Eighteenth-Century England and France is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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