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" -

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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.


Electronic books.

PN56.M28 / A33 2015

809/.933543