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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Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
Lingua: | inglese |
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Hanover, N.H. :
Dartmouth College Press,
2015.
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Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
- 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.