Scupham, Hannah Elizabeth (2022) “Reader, I Married Him”: Readership, Imagination, and Politics of the Marriage Plot in the Nineteenth-Century Novel PhD, University of Kansas Topic historical romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) readers Jane Austen Elizabeth Gaskell George Eliot romance and, or as, activism history romance scholarship Pamela Daoust/Katharine Kincaid Sarah MacLean Courtney Milan race/ethnicity feminism Olivia Waite