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New World Courtships Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
- Series:
- Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
- Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Companionate marriage--Cross-cultural studies.
- Companionate marriage.
- Man-woman relationships--Cross-cultural studies.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
- Man-woman relationships in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Courtship in literature.
- Marriage in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61168-833-7
- OCLC:
- 925585797
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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