New World Courtships: Transatlantic Alternatives to Companionate Marriage

by Melissa M. Adams-Campbell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611688310
• ISBN13: 9781611688313
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Dartmouth
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"