Primitive marriage: victorian anthropology, the novel, and sexual modernity
Auteur :
Psomiades, Kathy Alexis
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192863720
Date de publication :
3 avr. 2023
Dimensions :
24,1 x 16,3 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
546 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.