New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2015Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611688337
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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.
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.
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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.

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"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.

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