Victorian Honeymoons - Journeys to the Conjugal

Informationen zum Autor Helena Michie is Agnes C. Arnold Professor in Humanities and Professor of English at Rice University. Klappentext A cultural history of the honeymoon in Victorian culture, private accounts, and fiction. Zusammenfassung This cultural history of the honeymoon explores accounts in novels such as Middlemarch! conduct material! and a case study of 61 real-life honeymooning couples through private letters and diaries. Helena Michie uncovers the meaning of the honeymoon for Victorian expectations of marriage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Reading honeymoons; 2. Reorientations; 3. Carnal knowledges; 4. Honeymoon Gothic; 5. Capturing Martha.

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• Authors: Helena Michie, Helena (Rice University Michie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2006
• EAN: 9780521868747
• ISBN: 978-0-521-86874-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Practical guides; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories