03195oam 22008054a 450 991077799000332120080321103954.01-283-06418-997866130641890-8223-8400-010.1515/9780822384007(CKB)1000000000757762(EBL)1167848(SSID)ssj0000394854(PQKBManifestationID)11295744(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394854(PQKBWorkID)10404680(PQKB)11429499(OCoLC)190713356(MiAaPQ)EBC1167848(OCoLC)1140690282(MdBmJHUP)muse81041190713356(DE-B1597)554174(DE-B1597)9780822384007(OCoLC)1055302961(EXLCZ)99100000000075776220080110d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe wedding complex[electronic resource] forms of belonging in modern American culture /Elizabeth FreemanDurham Duke University Press20021 online resource (311 p.)Series QDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-2989-1 0-8223-2953-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-277) and index.Love among the ruins -- The we of me : The member of the wedding's novel alliances -- "That troth which failed to plight" : race, the wedding, and kin-aesthetics in Absalom, Absalom! -- "A diabolical circle for the divell to daunce in" : foundational weddings and the problem of civil marriage -- Honeymoon with a stranger : private couplehood and the making of the national subject -- The immediate country, or, heterosexuality in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Coda.A queer literary and cultural studies examination of the wedding ceremony (rather than the resulting marriages) which finds it to be a space of more open possibilities than might normally be supposed.e-Duke books scholarly collection.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismWeddings in literatureSame-sex marriageUnited StatesPopular cultureUnited StatesSexual orientation in literatureWeddings in motion picturesWeddings in popular cultureWeddingsUnited StatesCulture in motion picturesAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Weddings in literature.Same-sex marriagePopular cultureSexual orientation in literature.Weddings in motion pictures.Weddings in popular culture.WeddingsCulture in motion pictures.813/.509355Freeman Elizabeth1966-914983NcDNcDBOOK9910777990003321The wedding complex3815328UNINA