THE MARRIAGE PLOT / by Eugenides, Jeffrey 375385

“…While everyone else in the early 1980s was reading Derrida, she was happily absorbed with Jane Austen and George Eliot: purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. …”

Sexual Science as Manifested in Hardy's Marriage Plot by Ahmad, Asma Hana

“…The investigation mostly focuses on his marriage plot. Darwin's theory works towards establishing the defining features of struggle in Hardy' s characterisation and structure of each text with regards to sexuality. …”
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“She Loves Nothing but Her Art”: Vibrant Marble and the Agency of the Female Artist in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Marble Woman, or The Mysterious Model” by Verena Laschinger, Annemarie Mönch, and Sophia Klefisch

“…At first glance, “A Marble Woman” (1865) seems to offer but a trite marriage plot, assuaging Louisa May Alcott’s contemporary readers while containing the heroine’s scandalous abilities. …”
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Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Trauma, Alienation, and Identity in Kate O’Riordan’s The Boy in the Moon by Jennifer A. Slivka

“…This article examines how O’Riordan’s The Boy in the Moon revises the union-as-marriage plot to consider the significance of cross-cultural contact in contemporary Ireland and England. …”
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Squaring the Triangle: Queer Futures in Centlivre’s <em>The Wonder</em> by Ziona Kocher

“…As such, they manage to create a queer future where their relationship can remain at the forefront of their lives and rewrite the marriage plot as a means to an end.…”
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The ethics of friendship in the Victorian novel by Stallings, CL

“…It argues that the friendship plot is neither necessarily subservient to or in service of other plots (e.g., the marriage plot) nor primarily an expression of sublimated homosexual desire. …”

Courtship and spatiality in nineteenth-century English novels by Divya Athmanathan

“…This spatial approach to courtship and marriage plots in the nineteenth century not only reorients the much-discussed, but still pertinent, discourse of the public and the private spheres, but also provides fresh insights on the narrative functions of spatiality.…”
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