TY - BOOK AU - Adams-Campbell,Melissa M. ED - Project Muse. TI - New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage T2 - Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies SN - 9781611688337 AV - PN56.M28 A33 2015 U1 - 809/.933543 23 PB - Dartmouth College Press KW - Companionate marriage KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - Man-woman relationships in literature KW - Sex in literature KW - Courtship in literature KW - Marriage in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 N2 - "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" - UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42529/ ER -