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New world courtships transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage
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Title
New world courtships [electronic resource] : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.
ISBN
1611688337
9781611688337
9781611688313 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611688320 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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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.
Variant and related titles
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2015 Global Cultural Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 04, 2015
Series
Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American Studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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