How does the literary period affect the view on marriage?

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this is the question given and im basing it off of two literary periods, the victorian and the romantic. However, trying to find information on the marriage aspects and how the time periods is actually hard. So, if you got anything to help me i appreciate it. How does the literary period affect the view on marriage?
Before the cultural revolution (Renaissance for example), the view on marriage was basically for economic purposes with no love involved. However, after the revolution, the idea of marriage was that people started to marry each other for love because land was becoming scarce since land kept being bequeathed, fathers were having a harder time giving their sons inheritances (look at the United States with its westward expansion). This kind of equal status with love from husband being returned for love from wife can be seen in literature (which was a major source of how women started to see that they were equal to the men they loved) especially in romance. Such novels would be Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice where the heros show that they deserve the heroine not because they have wealth but because they are intellectual as well.