October 8, 2025

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Key Points

Victorian thinkers reframed marriage around consent, reshaping its historical narrative.
Kathy Psomiades's work analyzes the implications of this shift on the marriage plot.
The concept of consent serves as a critical turning point in understanding marriage historically.
The findings suggest a reevaluation of traditional views on marriage in Victorian literature.

Abstract

Kathy Psomiades’s Primitive Marriage argues that Victorian thinkers used consent as the turning point of history, changing our reading of the marriage plot.

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Cite This Study

Talia Schaffer (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5c1b46950a706b22b51c0 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150325000051

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Synapse has enriched 5 closely related papers on similar clinical questions. Consider them for comparative context:

1Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity by Kathy Alexis (review)2024
2<scp>Kathy Alexis Psomiades</scp>. <i>Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity</i>2024
3Modernity Stories II2025
4Modernity Stories2025
5Replotting Marriage2024

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