New World Courtships
Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
New World Courtships Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
"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" -
9781611688337 1611688337
Companionate marriage--Cross-cultural studies.
Man-woman relationships--Cross-cultural studies.
Literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Sex in literature.
Courtship in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.M28 / A33 2015
809/.933543
New World Courtships Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
"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" -
9781611688337 1611688337
Companionate marriage--Cross-cultural studies.
Man-woman relationships--Cross-cultural studies.
Literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Man-woman relationships in literature.
Sex in literature.
Courtship in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Electronic books.
PN56.M28 / A33 2015
809/.933543