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Johnson, Laura K. "Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890-1925," American and New England Studies, Boston University, June 2001.
Combining literary analysis with a close investigation of case law and legislation, this study investigates the way the novels of Edith Wharton, William Dean Howells, and Theodore Dreiser entered into widely publicized controversies surrounding marriage law. The study argues that these writers privileged marital reform as a means of social progress and that they self-consciously reflected on the relationship between literary stories and legal formulations. They indicted ostensibly outmoded representations of marriage for perpetuating legally inscribed hierarchies of race, gender, and even class, and they sought to re-imagine both marriage and the marriage plot in ways that would have profound social import.
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