New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage /

New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Adams-Campbell, Melissa M., author.
Imprint:	Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	xii, 204 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies Re-mapping the transnational.
Subject:	Marriage in literature. Courtship in literature. Sex in literature. Man-woman relationships in literature. Literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Man-woman relationships -- Cross-cultural studies. Companionate marriage -- Cross-cultural studies. Interpersonal Relations -- history. Marriage -- history. Companionate marriage. Courtship in literature. Literature. Man-woman relationships. Man-woman relationships in literature. Marriage in literature. Sex in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10394878

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Varying Form of Title:	Transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage
ISBN:	9781611688313 1611688310 9781611688320 1611688329 9781611688337
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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" - "Varieties of marriage in early American and British novels. Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel's marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely traced the effects of this influence through a monolithic understanding of marriage. New World Courtships is the first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that actively compare marriage practices from the Atlantic world. These texts trouble Enlightenment claims that companionate marriage leads to women's progress by comparing alternative systems for arranging marriage and sexual relations in the Americas. Attending to representations of marital diversity in early transatlantic novels disrupts nation-based accounts of the rise of the novel and its relation to 'the' marriage plot. It also illuminates how and why cultural differences in marriage mattered in the Atlantic world--and shows how these differences might help us to reimagine marital diversity today."--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Index