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Book SynopsisWalker reads conjugality as the compulsory ground of modern identity, an Enlightenment legacy we still grapple with today, and offers new perspectives on Austen, Wordsworth and other Romantics of the Regency period through theories of marriage in Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and, in our time, Adam Phillips and Stanley Cavell.
Trade Review"
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism is provocative and intelligent—and stylish. It makes a substantial contribution to Austen and Wordsworth criticism and (with Cavell's help) turns 'marriage' into an unexpectedly fascinating philosophical problem, thereby opening a new angle on a significant portion of Romantic and post-Romantic literature." -- Celeste Langan, University of California
"[A]n impressive and groundbreaking project . . .
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism is an important book, erudite and painstakingly researched . . . Walker's point is well taken and pursued through the course of the book with energy, creativity and great scholarly rigor, offering genuine insight into overlooked representations of contested conjugality post-Waterloo." -- Thomas Schmid *
The Wordsworth Circle *
"An important and stimulating study, Walker's
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism is erudite, beautifully written, and the result of a career-long investment in a variety of issues whose uncanny connectedness is perhaps paramount among the study's many virtues. It is as close to the paradigm of the scholarly book as a study is likely to get." -- William Galperin
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xxx A Note on Texts xxx 1 Mapping Marriage 1 2 The Muse of Indifference 000 3 Marriage and the End of War 000 4 Marriage and Siblings 000 5 Marriage and Friends 000 6 Marriage 000 Appendix 000 Notes 000 Works Cited 000
