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Index
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
I NTRODUCTION
The Female Relations of Victorian England
Overview
Historical and Disciplinary Borders
How This Book Engages Scholarly Debates
How I Came to Write This Book
Conclusion
P ART O NE
Elastic Ideals: Female Friendship
C HAPTER O NE
Friendship and the Play of the System
Female Friendship in Feminist Studies
Victorian Women’s Lifewriting and Relationships between Women
Female Friendship as Gender Norm
Friends and “Friends”
The Repertory of Friendship
“Purified and Made One in Jesus”
Friendship, Kinship, Marriage
C HAPTER T WO
Just Reading: Female Friendship and the Marriage Plot
The Form of the Plot
Female Amity and the Companionate Marriage Plot
Female Amity and the Feminist Marriage Plot
The Double Marriage Plot: Friendship as Cause and Effect
Unamiable Villette: Lucy Snowe’s Passion
P ART T WO
Mobile Objects: Female Desire
C HAPTER T HREE
Dressing Up and Dressing Down the Feminine Plaything
Fashion and Fantasies of Women
Discipline and Punishment in the Fashion Magazine
Live Dolls
C HAPTER F OUR
The Female Accessory in Great Expectations
The Female Dyad and the Origins of Desire
Gender Mobility I: Masculinity as Castoff
Gender Mobility II: Pip as Doll and Fashion Plate
The Sentimental Education of the Female Dyad
P ART T HREE
Plastic Institutions: Female Marriage
C HAPTER F IVE
The Genealogy of Marriage
Female Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
Female Marriage and Victorian Marriage Reform
The Debate over Contractual Marriage
Victorian Anthropology and the History of Marriage
Same-Sex Unions and the History of Civilization
C HAPTER S IX
Contracting Female Marriage in Can You Forgive Her?
Trollope, Feminism, and Female Marriage
Female Marriage and Contractual Marriage in Can You Forgive Her?
Marriage as Forgiveness: Primitive Contract and Modern Punishment
The Persistence of Female Relations
C ONCLUSION
Woolf, Wilde, and Girl Dates
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index
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