Elsie Michie: 2 books
by Jill Galvan, Elsie Michie
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
In Replotting Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Jill Galvan and Elsie Michie bring together top Victorian scholars to scrutinize nineteenth-century marriage in incisive ways. The volume puts marriage in conversation with many aspects of culture, from education and anthropology to...
The Vulgar Question of Money
Heiresses, Materialism, and the Novel of Manners from Jane Austen to Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
It is a familiar story line in nineteenth-century English novels: a hero must choose between money and love, between the wealthy, materialistic, status-conscious woman who could enhance his social position and the poorer, altruistic, independent-minded woman whom he loves. Elsie B. Michie explains...