Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage

The Matrimonial Trap examines the ways in which six women writers of the long eighteenth century used public and private writing to redefine marriage as an egalitarian relationship. Their writing reveals their participation in and reactions to a larger sense of crisis about marriage in eighteenth-century society.

• | Author: Laura E. Thomason
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 31, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1611487056
• | ISBN-13: 9781611487053