Consensual Fictions
In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a ''contractual subjectivity'' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation of women''s place within society. Because this new progressive form of marriage was based on emotion rather t...
In eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, consensual marriages became increasingly popular, according women a ''contractual subjectivity'' in which the liberal ideal of individual choice was key. Representations of consensual marriage thus provide a firm grounding for the re-evaluation of women''s place within society. Because this new progressive form of marriage was based on emotion rather t...
