While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the
subject of much recent critical interest, there has been little
research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon
relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey.
Although the term 'honeymoon' was coined in the eighteenth century,
the ritual increased in popularity throughout the Victorian period,
until by the end of the century it became a familiar accompaniment
to the wedding for all but the poorest classes. Using letters and
diaries of 61 real-life honeymooning couples, as well as novels
from Frankenstein to Middlemarch that feature honeymoon scenarios,
Michie explores the cultural meanings of the honeymoon, arguing
that, with its emphasis on privacy and displacement, the honeymoon
was central to emerging ideals of conjugality and to ideas of the
couple as a primary social unit.
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