New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
- Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage
Description
"The first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth and nineteenth-century countertexts that actively compare culturally diverse marriage practices from Canada to the Caribbean" - Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]
Physical description
xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Introduction: mapping marriage -- Why marriage mattered then -- Comparing rights, comparing stories -- Making room for coquettes and fallen women -- A postcolonial heroine "writes back" -- Bungling bundling -- Epilogue: why marriage matters now.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Marriage in literature
- Courtship in literature
- Sex in literature
- Man-woman relationships in literature
- Literature, Modern18th centuryHistory and criticism
- Literature, Modern19th centuryHistory and criticism
- Man-woman relationshipsCross-cultural studies
- Companionate marriageCross-cultural studies
- Interpersonal Relationshistory
- Marriagehistory
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineTPL.AI.AA7-8Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781611688313
- 1611688310
- 9781611688320
- 1611688329