Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction

Randall T. Craig

Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction
Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Published
2 December 1999
Pages
331
ISBN
9780791444252

Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction

Randall T. Craig

Argues that Victorian legal, linguistic, and cultural attitudes toward promises–especially promises to marry–had a formative effect on novels of the period.

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