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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   REASON AND MATRIMONIAL POLITICS IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Authors:  MARÍA JESÚS LORENZO-MODIA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Reason and Matrimonial Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century. Eighteenth-century women writers were particularly conscious of the restricted role their female characters had to play when ‘entering the world.’ The marriage market and the ways to deal with it were present in most of their texts from the beginning of the century onwards. Novelists such as Mary Davys, Sarah Fielding, and Eliza Haywood tackled these issues in their different fictional writings. The gender perspective will form the theoretical framework of this paper in order to analyze literary texts by the above-mentioned eighteenth-century women writers.

Keywords: matrimonial politics, eighteenth-century fiction, Mary Davys, Sarah Fielding, Eliza Haywood, David Simple, Betsy Thoughtless, Familiar Letters
 
         
     
         
         
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