New World Courtships Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
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TextSeries: Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studiesPublisher: Dartmouth College Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: 9781611688337; 1611688337Subject(s): Companionate marriage -- Cross-cultural studies | Man-woman relationships -- Cross-cultural studies | Literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Man-woman relationships in literature | Sex in literature | Courtship in literature | Marriage in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 809/.933543 LOC classification: PN56.M28 | A33 2015Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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"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.
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