Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

by Dalene Joy Fisher

Book Overview

"I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described."

Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to the fact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian faith in such works.

In this Studies in Theology and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0830850716
• ISBN13: 9780830850716
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"