Resisting the Marriage Plot - Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Bronte, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

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 Austen's Mansfield Park (1814)

4. "Devotion to Her Earthly Lord": Redemptive Marriage in Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

5. "All and Everything": Rebellion, Responsibility, and Redemption in Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth (1853)

Conclusion: "Attracting the Eyes of Men"

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

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