Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Adams-Campbell, Melissa M.

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xii, 204 pages; 23 cm

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.

Series Statement

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Uniform Title

Re-mapping the transnational.

Alternative Title

Transatlantic alternatives to companionate marriage

Subject

• Marriage in literature
• Courtship in literature
• Sex in literature
• Man-woman relationships in literature
• Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism
• Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism
• Man-woman relationships > Cross-cultural studies
• Companionate marriage > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 15-8419

ISBN

• 9781611688313
• 1611688310
• 9781611688320
• 1611688329
• 9781611688337 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015008498

OCLC

907190284

Author

Adams-Campbell, Melissa M., author.

Title

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

Publisher

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

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

Re-mapping the transnational.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-8419