Title: New world courtships : transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage /
Authors: Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Marriage in literature.; Courtship in literature.; Sex in literature; Man-woman relationships in literature.; Literature History and criticism.; Literature 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.
Abstract: "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" -
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.