New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage

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New World Courtships Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage

"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" -

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Adams-Campbell, Melissa M. (-)
Format:	eBook
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press 2015.
Edition:	1st ed
Series:	Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies
Subjects:	Companionate marriage > Cross-cultural studies. Man-woman relationships > Cross-cultural studies. Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism. Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism. Man-woman relationships in literature. Sex in literature. Courtship in literature. Marriage in literature.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:	https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422990806719

Table of 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.