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.
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