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.