Revolutionary no more : the disempowering effect of marriage on classic literary heroines.

• Main Author: Chia, Valerie Ying En.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52185
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Aside from their status as canonical works of English Literature and bestselling blockbusters of their time, another element uniting Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847), is their focus on courtship and marriage from a f...