Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy

by Frances E. Dolan

Book Overview

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what--or who--must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.

Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Puritan advice literature, sensational accounts of "true crime," and late twentieth-century marriage manuals and films about battered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081222082X
• ISBN13: 9780812220827
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"