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" -
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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.