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"--

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Autor principal: Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.