Primitive marriage : victorian anthropology, the novel, and sexual modernity /

What happens when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional subject of marriage? This book shows how anthropology gave late-Victorian novelists and social scientists ways of rethinking heterosexual romance by referring to a new kind of history of marriage systems, sexual be...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
What happens when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional subject of marriage? This book shows how anthropology gave late-Victorian novelists and social scientists ways of rethinking heterosexual romance by referring to a new kind of history of marriage systems, sexual behavior, and reproductive practices.
Umfang:
1 online resource (223 pages)
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-195446-2
0-19-267865-5
0-19-267864-7
Schlagworte:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
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