title: Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction
author:  Talia Schaffer 
description: <br />"For literary scholars interested in the Victorian marriage plot and cultural studies scholars interested in the nineteenth-century attitudes toward romance, domesticity, and woman's place in society, Talia Schaffer's <em>Romance's Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction</em> is essential reading. Well-written, wide-ranging, sensitive to Victorian preoccupations, and constructed around illuminating paradigms illustrated with examples from important canonical and noncanonical texts, this study is a standout among the good examinations of Victorian marriage to have appeared in recent years." --<em>Victorian Studies</em>
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