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New World Courtships
Melissa M. Adams-Campbell
其他書名
Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage
出版
Dartmouth College Press
, 2015-10-22
主題
Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Women
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
ISBN
1611688337
9781611688337
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=v225CgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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. This book will appeal to scholars of literature, women's studies, and early American history.