ISBN:
1280439254
,
9781280439254
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 417 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version For Better, for Worse : British Marriages, 1600 to the Present
DDC:
306.8/0941
Keywords:
Courtship History
;
Marriage History
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Courtship and Marriage in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries""; ""1. Neither Single nor Actually Married: Courtship and Betrothal in a Homosocial World""; ""2. A Maie Game of Marriage: The Politics of Big Weddings""; ""3. Neither Birth nor Portion Shall Hinder the Match: Clandestine Marriage and Sexual Nonconformity""; ""Part II: Conflict and Change in the Age of Agrarian and Industrial Revolution, 1750�1850""; ""4. The Better Man of the Two: Changing Relations between the Sexes, 1750�1850""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5. Time Changes Fau'k an' Manners: Private Marriages versus Public Bridals""""6. The Last Stage of Their Hope: From the Celibate to the Conjugal City""; ""7. Married but not Churched: Common-Law Marriage and the Renewal of Sexual Nonconformity""; ""Part III: The Era of Mandatory Marriage, 1850�1960""; ""8. Better a Bad Husband Than No Husband at All: The Compulsion to Marry, 1850�1914""; ""9. Love on the Dole: The Ritualization of Courtship in the Twentieth Century""; ""10. The Lady Generally Likes White Weddings: Revival of the Big Wedding""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Part IV: Conjugal Myths and Marital Realities, 1960 to the Present""""11. Love and Marriage: The Unresolved Contradiction""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Note:
Bibliography: p. 385-407
,
Includes index
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