The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel

ISBN: 9781107501348 出版年：2015 页码：262 Maia McAleavey Cambridge University Press

Introduction Part I. A Wife and Not a Wife: 1. The plot in time: historical bigamy and Sylvia's Lovers 2. The plot in space: skeletons in the closet in Jane Eyre and East Lynne Part II. Dead Yet Not Dead: 3. David Copperfield's angelic bigamy 4. Dorothea's simultaneous remarriage Part III. Sensational and Canonical: 5. Colonial return: Pendennis and Lady Audley's Secret 6. The improper end: Aurora Floyd and Jude the Obscure Coda: the end of bigamy Appendix: list of Victorian bigamy novels Bibliography.