New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage /
Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
- 1 online resource (224 pages).
- Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies .
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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"--
English.
9781611688337
Literature - General. Languages & Literatures. Sex in literature. Marriage in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Man-woman relationships. Courtship in literature. Companionate marriage. Literature, Modern BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary. Mariage dans la litterature. Amours dans la litterature. Sexualite dans la litterature. Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la litterature. Litterature--Histoire et critique.--18e siecle Litterature--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle Relations entre hommes et femmes--Études transculturelles. Mariage compagnonnage--Études transculturelles. Marriage in literature. Courtship in literature. Sex in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--18th century Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century Man-woman relationships--Cross-cultural studies. Companionate marriage--Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Electronic books.