The Novel as a tool of innovation or from arranged marriage to love

Authors

  • Consol Freixa

Keywords:

Literature, novel, marriage, education, woman

Abstract

Comparing and contrasting The education of young women (Fenelon-1687) with several novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, we may understand why women and young people were forbidden to read fiction as well as the influence of novels in the change of our love behaviour and in the disappearance of marriages arranged by parents.

Published

2007-05-13