The wedding complex
Subtitle: forms of belonging in modern American culture
By: Elizabeth Freeman.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Weddings in literature; Same-sex marriage -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Sexual orientation in literature; Weddings in motion pictures; Weddings in popular culture; Weddings -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.
Table of contents: title: Love among the ruins; title: The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances; title: "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom!; title: "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage; title: Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject; title: The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction; title: Coda.