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Autore |
Adams-Campbell Melissa M |
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Titolo |
New World Courtships : Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage / / Melissa M. Adams-Campbell |
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Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Companionate marriage |
Man-woman relationships |
Literature, Modern - 19th century - History and criticism |
Literature, Modern - 18th century - History and criticism |
Man-woman relationships in literature |
Sex in literature |
Courtship in literature |
Marriage in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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" - |
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