New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell.

  • Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.
Date:
[2015]
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About this work

Also known as

Transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]

Physical description

xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

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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Where to find it

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    History of Medicine
    TPL.AI.AA7-8
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ISBN

  • 9781611688313
  • 1611688310
  • 9781611688320
  • 1611688329